Next week, the proposal for a cabinet meeting will be raised • Among the issues on the agenda: the quality of service for the disabled and a national program for the treatment of combat casualties and post-trauma victims
The solidarity protest with Itzik Saidian in front of the Rehabilitation Division in Petah Tikva on Memorial Day
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Yossi Zeliger
This evening (Sunday), the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Eshel, presented the Ministry of Defense's plan for reform in the Rehabilitation Division. For the treatment of combat casualties and post-trauma victims.
At the beginning of next week, the Ministry of Defense will bring to the cabinet meeting a resolution of the issues already ripe for change, including the addition of manpower for people who care for the disabled directly.
"It will require resources. There is no question here at all. The change is not some kind of 'fine tuning'. It is a leap forward, which will go up. We will find what we can."
Hundreds of IDF and combat casualties demonstrated in front of the campus // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
"We are on the verge of change. There is a real desire to lead to change. The employees of the Ministry of Defense's Rehabilitation Division handle the IDF's endless dedication with dedication.
We have failures, we have errors, we do not close our eyes and do not pass by, "Eshel said." We have not set up another committee.
Most of the insights, knowledge and conclusions are in our hands.
The intention is to simply implement it quickly, although not everything can be done immediately. "
Eshel said Defense Minister Bnei Gantz would closely monitor the event on a daily or bi-daily basis, "to see how the bottlenecks are opened from the Ministry of Defense to the government."
According to the Ministry of Defense plan, one of the main issues to be addressed is the quality of service provided to the disabled.
"Our people do their best, but the quality of service is not satisfactory," said the director general of the Ministry of Defense. "The scope of our workforce is a weakness.
The number of our doctors in relation to the number of disabled people is immeasurably less good than other systems in the State of Israel. "
Another issue that will be addressed is the accessibility and accessibility of services for the disabled, in a digital form, as well as pushing the disabled to exercise all their rights.
Treatment will also be carried out at "one of the points of failure" of the Rehabilitation Division, as defined by the Director General of the Ministry of Defense, and the medical committees.
It will be recalled that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Goren Committee, permanent personnel who were injured not due to their service are not treated by the Ministry of Defense, but by the National Insurance Institute.
On the other hand, conscripts who are injured due to their service, for example, during a vacation at home, are recognized as IDF invalids. According to Maj. Gen. But it will be up the road, "he said.
In the coming week, the Ministry of Defense intends to summarize the investigation into Itzik Saidian's case.
This coming Sunday, the Ministry of Defense will bring to the cabinet meeting a draft resolution on the maturity issues already for change.
"It will be a first course, we understand that it will not end there," Eshel clarified.
70 percent of IDF disabled people are rehabilitated. It's not a failure, but it's not enough. I want 100 percent. The body that treats tens of thousands of people has both failures and failures, "Eshel concluded." Itzik has reached a desperate situation that should not have been reached. In his case we did not succeed. I do not want to wrap it up in nice words. "
