Interns' struggle resumes: "Outline implementation team not established, agreements not honored" Israel today

The prescription doctors' organization "Prescription" announced today (Sunday) that it intends to renew the struggle to shorten the shifts of interns in hospitals, because so far the team has not been set up to implement the outline, which poses a real threat to its implementation and the entire shifts program.

The implementation team, according to the approved outline, was supposed to convene as early as three weeks ago, but so far no letter of appointment has been issued and it is unclear if there will be such a team and / or who its members are.

Minister Horowitz with interns.

Will abide by the agreements?

// Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,

The Medical Association "sticks" the appointment of the application team.

On Thursday, the vehicle was almost formed for the implementation committee, and then the Medical Association raised additional demands to bring in more union leaders on their behalf.

Anything like this further delays the appointment of the application team to shorten the shifts (which is just the first step on the way).

The prescription doctors' organization "Prescription" said: "We sat quietly for three weeks. We gave all the credit to the ministry and the Minister of Health to solve all the problems with the Medical Association. Now it's over, because if the Ministry of Health and the Minister are unable to take over Of setting up the team, who knows what it will look like tomorrow when the time comes to put things into practice.

The implementation team should be set up with or without the Medical Association, and the fact that the team has not yet been set up poses a real threat to the implementation of the outline and the plan to shorten the shifts.

Tonight there will be an emergency meeting of the leadership and activists of the organization for the purpose of resuming the struggle to implement the outline for shortening shifts.

We will not sit idly by when there are those who are forcibly trying to take everything we have already achieved.

We will take to the streets again if necessary and renew the struggle, for all that that implies.

"Anyone who does not abide by the agreements and does not implement them, and anyone who tries to thwart the plan to shorten the shifts, will find us in full force."