Although most hospital administrators in the country remain silent about the quality of care for corona patients, there are increasing warnings and harsh warnings from senior doctors in public hospitals in Israel that the quality of care for patients is deteriorating.
According to senior doctors, the level of care for Corona patients is declining, so much so that in some hospitals the situation is already of severe inadequacy in the face of the erosion of the medical staff, who are unable to provide adequate medical care to Corona patients. According to the Ministry of Health, about 700 severe coronary heart disease patients are hospitalized in the country, 211 of them in critical condition and 145 respirators, when this week the State Comptroller warned in a report on the corona that there is a shortage of medical and nursing personnel skilled in intensive care and respiration. And that there are very many intensive care beds in Israel.
The head of a department at one of the largest government hospitals in the country told Israel Today yesterday that "there are unskilled nurses and doctors who do not know how to treat patients severely, and some have no idea what to do at night with the patients, for which patients pay and their doctors are very worn out." "Some are unable to cope with the difficult situations, and do not know how to deal with respiratory patients. This is also a danger to patients' lives, and the doctors also come out of shifts completely broken and shattered."
According to the department director, "This week a doctor told me he went into a standstill at night while on duty, when he saw how the team of doctors and nurses did not know how to treat patients. Some doctors stayed in post-trauma because they faced the deaths of many patients that night. And it remains with them like trauma in a bloody war.
The workload on the corona wards is huge, and when hospital managements place doctors and nurses who do not know how to treat patients severely, the significance is catastrophic.
"It all happens when the public does not know about it at all and the hospital managers broadcast business as usual and 'everything is fine'."
"Release patients quickly"
Dr. Ami Neuberger, director of the Corona Department (Keter) at the Rambam Government Hospital in Haifa, said:
This is a situation of mini-terrorist attack.
"In the meantime, the treatment is reasonable and there are enough skilled staff, but there are now hospitals where there is one doctor who is in charge of difficult and respiratory patients, and then it is clear that this attitude is unlikely and patients are injured."
Prof. Yehuda Adler, an expert in cardiology, internal medicine and medical administration and a corona consultant to municipal authorities, said that "when there are about 700 severe corona patients hospitalized, the medical staff is completely worn out and in some hospitals they have to stroke, especially at night, inexperienced interns "Treating difficult patients, and that endangers the lives of patients even more and creates a difficult therapeutic problem."
Yesterday, the internal auditor of the Wolfson Government Hospital in Holon, Assaf Ganz, also contacted the hospital's director, Dr. Anat Engel, and warned that the hospital was on the verge of failure to treat corona patients.
In an unusual request, the Comptroller wrote that "Over the past year, the hospital's management and the Ministry of Health have received reports from physicians about the functioning of the corona wards due to workload. "When about 60 corona patients were hospitalized, the fear is that at that time the hospital was already in a state of insufficiency, as reflected in the doctors' reports, which to the best of my knowledge have not yet been examined."
Corona Department.
"The situation is about to get worse," said Oren Ben Hakon
The comptroller continued in his letter that "Today, during the fourth wave of the corona, the number of patients in the corona wards is very high, and at certain times the number of corona patients in the hospital reached 80 corona patients and even more." Proper preparation and coping. "
The letter was also sent to the management of the hospitals division in the Ministry of Health and to Tzipi Hellman, the director of the internal audit division in the Ministry of Health.
Persistent default
Israel Today last year revealed unusual letters from doctors at Wolfson Hospital, who reported to the hospital's management a long list of ongoing failures and failures in the treatment of corona patients, and also detailed in their complaints cases of patients who died as a result. Skill treated respiratory patients resulting in fatal malfunctions, and that patients were neglected in the wards.
According to complaints from doctors at Wolfson, severe and respiratory corona patients died not only because of their illness, but rather because of shocking failures in medical and nursing care, severe neglect, lack of basic medical equipment and persistent failures and failures made by unskilled and inexperienced nurses. And respirators in the corona ward and corona intensive care unit.
Senior doctors say the burden of treating corona patients will increase, with Shaare Zedek and Hadassah hospitals in Jerusalem announcing yesterday that "unfortunately due to the deep budget crisis, we are forced to refer patients to other hospitals."
Wolfson: "The treatment is excellent"
Wolfson Hospital said: "Unequivocally we have not reached insufficiency and we are far from it. Anyone who is professional and knowledgeable about the matter can attest to this. "In addition to being at the forefront of the war on the lives of patients with Corona, we continue with routine diagnostic, surgical and life-saving activities."
The hospital's response last year was that they reject doctors' complaints and that "the hospital provides the best and most dedicated care to patients by skilled and professional staff, and is highly valued."
The health ministry said that "the ministry and the government hospitals division are closely monitoring occupancy in government medical centers throughout the corona crisis. We are not under the impression that Wolfson Medical Center is in short supply and continues to provide quality and dedicated medical care to its patients."
