"I've been crying for the last few days, and I'm already feeling Don Quixote, but corona mortality now is unbearable and very difficult. There are not enough intensive care beds for respiratory corona patients. "The chance to live, die because there are not enough beds and intensive care staff. I see it in a lot of hospitals. It hurts."
The difficult and unprecedented things in their severity are said by Prof. Galia Rahav, director of the Department of Infection Prevention at Sheba Hospital, who is considered one of the top, best and most experienced physicians in Israel in the treatment of coronary heart disease.
"I have had hours of wars to transfer respiratory corona patients in a critical condition to intensive care units, and any such struggle is heartbreaking. , And now she's already in rehab.
If she had not passed, her chances of survival would have been very low.
"Even without Corona, there is a catastrophe in internal wards, with a shortage of intensive care beds, but now at once - heartbreaking."
"Patients who have not been given a chance to live are dying because there are not enough beds and intensive care staff."
Prof. Rahav // Photo: Gideon Markovich,
Prof. Rahav, who also serves as chair of the Association for Infectious Diseases at the Medical Association, says: According to the Ministry of Health last night, out of about 1,100 patients hospitalized in the corona wards of the hospitals, about 670 of them are in critical condition - including 246 in critical condition and 175 respirators.
Prof. Rahav's courageous testimony reinforces the testimonies revealed in "Israel Today" on September 2, which included severe warnings from senior doctors in public hospitals about the quality of the treatment of coronary heart disease patients, which is deteriorating.
In some hospitals the situation has already reached a severe insufficiency, as a result of which the treatment of patients is much less explanatory, due to the attrition of the team of doctors and nurses who are unable to provide adequate medical care to the patients.
Corona Department at Hadassah Ein Kerem // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
The head of a department at one of the major government hospitals then told Israel Today that the corona wards in most hospitals are staffed, especially on night shifts and on weekends, by "unskilled doctors and nurses who do not know how to treat patients severely and with respirators."
Some have no idea at all what to do at night with the patients, and for that patients pay in their lives and also the doctors are very eroded (see the article below - R.R.). "It's also a danger to lives for patients, and the doctors also come out of shifts completely broken and shattered."
It was also revealed that Wolfson Hospital's internal auditor, Assaf Ganz, warned the hospital's director, Dr. Anat Engel, that the hospital was on the verge of inadequate treatment of corona patients, and this was the first warning in the fourth corona wave about the quality of corona patients in homes. The warning was sent to the management of the hospital division of the Ministry of Health, and to Tzipi Hellman, the director of the ministry's internal audit department. Unskilled placed to treat respiratory patients, resulting in fatal malfunctions.
In response, Wolfson Hospital said that "unequivocally, the hospital has not reached insufficiency, and the staffs today provide the most excellent and advanced treatment."
The health ministry said it was monitoring occupancy at all hospitals, and that "we are not under the impression that Wolfson is insufficient."