The fourth wave of the corona is hitting hospitals hard, and they are begging for the allocation of resources and quality manpower to deal with the plague.
The number of people in critical condition rose to 579, the highest number since March, most of them unvaccinated.
At Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, 28 corona patients are hospitalized, including 12 patients in critical condition, including a 29-year-old who has not been vaccinated, and another ten patients in critical condition. "We have opened another corona ward.
"We have a full capacity of chronic patients in the inpatient department, and in addition, a second corona ward was opened this week with 28 beds and a third has already been filled, half of them in critical condition."
Prof. Hershko described the difficult situation: "I detract from the staff who are supposed to take care of the internal ward so that they can also take care of the Corona ward. The situation is worrying. Usually in the second half of August there is calm, but this year we are full. And do not see it. The most important thing is manpower. We are the soldiers at the front, everything falls on us. We have extraordinary tasks and need exceptional resources. Doctors, nurses, secretaries, social workers. The fourth wave climbs mercilessly and attacks us without any assumptions. We are disappointed not to We have received the support we need, and it is disappointing that some of the population has not been vaccinated. I do not find a logical reason for this. We have all the tools to leave the epidemic behind us. It is important to clarify that vaccines are the only effective way to eradicate epidemics. "
Ichilov Hospital has 58 patients, 19 of them in critical condition and 25 in critical condition. Dr. Yossi Tschbiner, Deputy Director of Internal Medicine II: .
At Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, 54 corona patients are hospitalized. 23 of them are in critical condition, and three of them are anesthetized and respirated. 22 of the hospitalized patients are not vaccinated.
"Winter is ahead"
At the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, 38 patients are hospitalized, 26 of them in critical condition - seven of them in critical condition.
"The loads are starting to get really crazy. We are on the verge of capacity and we have another September, October and winter ahead of us," the hospital emphasizes.
At Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, there has been a slight increase in the number of patients, but the hospital is under pressure. This is after 27 staff members are in isolation, of whom 14 have been infected with the virus. "Today, we have 61 patients hospitalized, of whom one is in critical condition and is being resuscitated, and 33 patients are in critical condition."
"Beating on Sin"
At Kaplan Medical Center, 41 corona patients are hospitalized, 20 of them in critical condition, including a 6-year-old girl who is hospitalized in critical care in a critical condition, although she is showing signs of recovery.
Dr. Eitan Lavon, deputy director of Kaplan Medical Center: "We are returning to the uneasy sights of the previous waves - and again relatively young patients who are not vaccinated are hospitalized in the ward, most of them beating up on sin and regretting not being vaccinated."
At Assuta Hospital in Ashdod, 14 corona patients are hospitalized, six of them in critical condition.
At Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, 89 corona patients are hospitalized, ten of them in critical condition, and at Wolfson Hospital in Holon, 66 corona patients are hospitalized. 33 of them are in serious condition.
At Soroka Hospital, 28 patients are currently hospitalized, 25 of them in critical condition, of whom seven are respirators and one patient is connected to Acme.
Meanwhile, according to data from the Ministry of Health published last night, 37 corona patients have died in Israel since the beginning of the week and the number of patients in critical condition hospitalized stands at 579, the highest number since March.
Shlomi Diaz, Dan Lavie, Daniel Sirioti, Assaf Golan, Yuri Yalon and Ilya Yagurov participated in the preparation of the article.