Doctors, nurses and medical staff demonstrate today (Sunday) in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem in protest of the non-transfer of the 100 million shekels promised to the seven public hospitals.
They claim that the Ministry of Health is ignoring the crisis.
The demonstrators, who were holding signs that read, "Life-threatening hospital" and "Where's the shame ?!" said, "Life-threatening hospitals.
The cooperation of the Ministry of Health and the Minister of Health with the drip and starvation method - shameful and degrading the health system at the height of the corona crisis.
This is an acute omission of the Ministry of Health, which impairs the functioning of hospitals.
Their conduct is the most dangerous variant - the struggle will go on indefinitely. '
Protest of public hospitals, today, Oren Ben Hakon
Protest of public hospitals, today, Oren Ben Hakon
Protest of public hospitals, today, Oren Ben Hakon
The director general of Niado Hospital, Nadav Chen, clarified: "The announcement from the Ministry of Finance stunned us.
We are not ready to work with the plaster method.
Transferring NIS 100 million out of the 400 million agreed upon and saying that the problem was solved is a joke.
Agreements should be respected.
Pass on what you promised so we can go back to work. '
The Director General of the English Hospital in Nazareth, Prof. Fahad Hakim, emphasized: "The Ministries of Finance and Health do not meet our obligations to us.
The strike will continue until there is a real solution for the public hospitals. "
The public hospitals clarified that the emergency work in the seven public hospitals will continue until the full implementation of the agreement signed with the principals.
Hospital executives' press conference, last week // Photo: Yoni Rickner
Last weekend, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman instructed the public hospitals to transfer an advance of more than NIS 100 million immediately, at the expense of the aid money promised to them - in order to deal with the corona crisis, despite the fact that the support tests were not completed.
In response to his announcement, the hospitals claimed that the transfer of NIS 100 million was not enough: "The previous agreement, from about six months ago, talked about transferring NIS 960 million to the hospitals - and out of that amount, only NIS 300 million was transferred.