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The health care system has defeated the corona, but loses the battle for its life - Walla! news

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With the decline in virus morbidity, the Treasury is striving to lower the standards designed for dealing with the epidemic. Ahead of the 24-hour strike by the Medical Association, the chairman, Prof. Hagai, details their demands, including 6,000 beds and guarding the interns: "Now we understand how important it is to invest in the system."


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The health care system defeated the Corona, but lost the battle for its life

With the decline in virus morbidity, the Treasury is striving to lower the standards designed for dealing with the epidemic.

Ahead of the 24-hour strike by the Medical Association, the chairman, Prof. Hagai, details their demands, including 6,000 beds and guarding the interns: "Now we understand how important it is to invest in the system."

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Meirav Cohen

Sunday, 09 May 2021, 11:12 Updated: 11:13

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"The number of hospital beds has been significantly reduced among OECD countries."

Room at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital (Photo: Flash 90, Hadas Porush)

After more than a year, the health care system is recording huge success in the war against the Corona, but its wars against the Treasury sectors have only just begun - and compared to the deadly virus, the odds are not in its favor.

Hospitals entered a crisis with under-budgeting, during which another 600 standards were added with an expiration date for this coming July.

Now that dozens of doctors and interns are receiving letters of dismissal, and after only 30 beds have been added to hospitals in the past year, the chairman of the Medical Association, Prof. Zion Hagai, has declared a 24-hour strike tomorrow (Monday), with the aim of winning this fight as well.



"The workforce and beds in hospitals in the State of Israel are significantly lower than in other OECD countries," warns Prof. Hagai.

"There is an increase in inequality between the center and the periphery in health, which directly affects life expectancy. In the center, life expectancy is greater than in the periphery by three years - we must reduce it. "That's why we had to go into three long and difficult closures, and that of course caused significant economic and social damage."



"Now we understand how important it is to invest in the system," the professor emphasizes.

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"There is no budget, and according to the situation at the moment it is not clear when it will be," Prof. Hagai (Photo: official website, spokeswoman for the Medical Association)

During the Corona crisis, the health system received 600 standards - including 300 standards during the time of former Health Minister Yaakov Litzman (Torah Judaism), and another 300 during the tenure of current Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud). At the same time, interns were added to the corona disputes, emergency rooms and internal medicine departments. Now with the decline in morbidity, the Ministry of Finance wants to lower the standards.



"No one knew it was possible to 'throw away' an intern after six months," Hagai resents. "They are the ones who struggled, contracted and worked hard, and are now told to go? The new standards did come with an expiration date, but under those agreements, they had to go into the budget base - but there is no budget, and according to the situation at the moment it is unclear when it will be. "In the hospitals, we did not receive indemnification for the expenses of opening wards, buying protection, and other expenses of the difficult period we went through."



“We have a good medical system, with staffs giving beyond working hours,” the professor says when asked if the cries of frustration over a starving health care system were excessive.

However, he clarifies that "in Corona there was a total mobilization of the medical staff, but even before the corona, the queues for surgeries were very long - if we do not add manpower and beds we will continue to be inadequate".



"Inpatient and surgical wards are already 100% occupied. In other words, patients wait a few days for them to arrive at the ward, even 24 hours. An emergency room is not a place for hospitalizing patients," he adds.

"In Corona there was a total mobilization of the medical staff."

Corona Department at Hillel Yaffe Hospital, January (Photo: Reuven Castro)

"By 2020, only a few single beds have been added. The percentage of the population over the age of 75 is constantly rising. Within a few years there will be another 200,000 people over the age of 75, consuming more medical services than young people. To prepare properly, we need another 6,000 beds, which can be added To existing hospitals or to build more hospitals, which are already in the planning stages, one in Be'er Sheva and the other in the north. "



The professor notes that at this stage the system has no formal discussions with the Treasury. "We have decided on a 24-hour warning strike, which should signal to the Treasury that we are serious about our demands. They cannot harm interns, and we will require additional manpower beyond these 600 standards." He explains that every year 400 standards must be added, requirements that he says the state can meet. "We have forecasts that there will be a decline in doctors in the next 15 years, because 50% of doctors will retire in the next decade. We need to fill lines."



As for the meaning of lowering the standards, Hagai says it will lead to a loss of doctors' trust in the Treasury, adding that "some of them, I fear, will come down from the country and thus lose a quality resource. If we lower the 600 standards we will be understaffed and unable to provide service. "It is low in everything related to Korna, but the occupancy of the boarding school is full. The wards are overcrowded with patients who did not come all year to receive treatment.



"If after the strike our demands are not met, we will consider the next steps," Hagai concludes.

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