This morning (Thursday) the hospitals will shut down from 08:00 to 10:00 and will not treat patients, including shutting down the operating rooms.
The directors of the public hospitals made it clear that the Ministries of Finance and Health are not yet implementing the agreement signed with them, and addressed the Prime Minister with the call: "Bennett, now it is in your hands."
Seven directors of public hospitals held a press conference in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem yesterday, shouted in light of the collapse of public hospitals, and demanded that Prime Minister Bennett intervene in the crisis.
Hadassah CEO Prof. Yoram Weiss said: "It is sad that we have been a week since the sanctions began, we have canceled thousands of patients in clinics and surgeries, and the Ministries of Finance and Health have not found a way to keep the agreement with us.
Between eight and ten in the morning the 7 hospitals will stop activity.
Only life-saving cases will be accepted.
my heart hurts.
We hope the solution comes and before the holiday.
This is not for us but for the residents of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Netanya and Bnei Brak. "
The staff of the Corona Intensive Care Unit at Soroka Hospital in peak moments, Soroka spokeswoman said
Shaare Zedek CEO Prof. Ofer Marin added: "Our cry has probably not yet reached the right ears.
We are here outside the Prime Minister's house because he must intervene in this crisis.
We, the seven principals, will sit in the encampment until there is a solution.
We will do the Shabbat meal there, we will do the Rosh Hashanah meal there together with our families, until a solution is found. "
The Director General of the English Hospital in Nazareth, Prof. Fahad Hakim: "The government of change, you must apologize to my mother.
Mom, I'm sorry, I canceled your surgery.
Our employees are tired of not getting what they deserve.
No supplier is willing to work with us, they are not willing to give us equipment. "
Meanwhile, the government approved the proposal of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and the Ministers of Finance, Health and Economy to transfer recognition grants in the amount of NIS 55 million to medical staff and employees of the health system.
It was decided to give the teams that were directly involved in treating the corona plague a one-time grant of NIS 1,000 for use in cultural and leisure businesses in the country.
Meanwhile, hospitals still claim that due to the heavy load created in the health system along the Corona plague, staff are collapsing and patients are dying. The claim is that there is an inexperienced placement of interns in the treatment of critically ill and respiratory patients, many doctors are traumatized by death chains, medical staffs are at the forefront and fighting patients - eroding and facing inadequacy due to lack of resources and manpower. A department head claimed: "This is a mini-mass attack."