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Opinion | When the feeling is that cancer patients are on target Israel today

2021-11-22T00:45:58.827Z


A procedure that allows the HMO to give cancer patients a reduced drug dose * Non-inclusion of an oncologist in the drug basket committee * A series of decisions regarding cancer patients raises the question: What policy is being formulated to dilute patients?


The unprecedented procedure of the director general of the Ministry of Health, which allows the General HMO to give patients with lung and skin cancer a reduced drug dose than that stipulated in the legal and official approval of the drugs in Israel - means abandoning patients to their fate.

It is worth wondering and asking: Has dilution of patients become part of an orderly policy?

The outrageous decision joins a series of puzzling decisions from the Ministry of Health's beit midrash, including the decision not to add an oncologist to the basket committee. Oncologists.

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz did the right thing when he added a psychologist to the basket committee. He will be able to ask the professional what place psychological support, encouragement and hope occupy in the processes of dealing with the serious and healing illness. However, the decision to enlist a psychologist only further increases the inconvenience resulting from the decision to exclude the presence of an oncologist on the committee, because advanced medicine and science help map genetics and different types of cancer.

Volunteer organizations all over the country are going out of their way to help patients fight for their lives. These are thousands of good people, who donate generously from their little free time, money and energy, and continue to help in any situation and wholeheartedly. Day after day they come to the homes of the patients to strengthen and uplift their spirits. Enormous mental strength is required to fight cancer every minute and every day for many months. How easy it is to give up and be dragged into the realms of despair, sacrifice and loss, instead of struggling. But when the medical authorities in the State of Israel are in a hurry to raise a white flag, and make decisions that are contrary to the perception that the right to life is a supreme value - why should doctors and nurses fight for the lives of patients?

The troubling and shaky bureaucracy of the HMOs must be improved in order to receive proper medical care.

It seems like you do not want to take care of a person who needs it, which is very depressing.

The hard implication is that there are patients who just give up out of desperation and reject treatments and doctor reviews, which can cost them their lives.

After all, this is not about an additional budget, but about robbing the systems, bringing organizational consultants and renewing public service awareness to patients who are struggling for their lives, and to patients who are threatened and frightened by death and are just waiting for the treatment that will cure them.

I am apprehensive of the insights and conclusions that cancer patients may reach in the face of those troubling moves.

Patients hang on to every glimmer of light and hope that hints at an improvement in any increase in spheres or a balance in the indices, and now comes the Ministry of Health, quantifying the cost of their medicines and wrinkling their lives.

Where is Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and why is his voice not heard?

The corona seems to have shaken and confused the public agenda.

Treating the epidemic has forced the state to invest a lot of money, even at the expense of cancer patients.

Fortunately, this epidemic is in retreat, but in contrast - traditional diseases do not show signs of retreat.

Source: israelhayom

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