"A special team will be set up to inspect the hospitals where the helpless are hospitalized" Israel today

Against the background of the consequences of the corona plague on mental health in Israel, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, is interviewed today (Tuesday) as part of the "Mental Account" conference of "Israel Today" and the General Medical Association.

Prof. Ash said in his opening remarks: "We are dealing at this time with great burdens in the mental health system, we are seeing the effects of the past period, it has affected us all, anxieties, isolation, dangers of livelihood and families who were in uncertainty. See the phenomenon also in schools , I hear about it from the education system and we have to deal with it.

"We addressed the field of mental health throughout the period, but it was a drop in the ocean. We increased our activity, created a telephone answering service and 12,000 Israelis used this service, which also included three meetings provided by the HMOs. "Attitude in youth homes. We are currently beginning to address adversity for adults and youth."

He added: "We will continue the telephone call service, it was successful and we see it as an important need in the future as well. It joins call centers that have been but it is a broader response of three meetings. So long and in relation to the long wait, we start with the answer, we chose HMO support tests to shorten the time to get to the first meeting and treatment and I hope it will affect, there were also calls for a circular that must get a person within two weeks but we chose not to give directive due to lack of budgets But to support the health funds. "

Prof. Ash at the conference // Photo: Gideon Markovich,

Prof. Ash added: "We will look more broadly at all the helpless in the system, they need a different protection, a different look, we want to make sure that there will be no cases where they will be harmed when they are helpless.

"I see part of the health system's work to dismantle the stigma on the mentally ill. Reform is part of this, and we are doing it today, and we have invested budgets and an ecological community in it.

On the murder of Little Yael Melnik: "It is a sequence of difficult events in Ma'ale Carmel, every incident that was there is difficult and each of the incidents is handled properly. I signed a letter of appointment to examine the treatment of the helpless in the Ministry of Health.

"I visited the hospital and there is a difficult situation there, but the caregivers are excellent and the entire hospital is in a development boom and more departments will be opened there next month."

On child vaccines he said: "We want the immunization rate to be greater, we have taken a two-week period and we need to accelerate the rate in the face of the spread of the Americon. We are going out for a wide range of activities in schools.

"There are side effects, but there is nothing unusual and we follow them with even greater piety than we did. I hope the parents will understand that vaccination is better than the disease itself."

"There is not enough information about the Americon, one has to be extra careful"

The chairman of the Medical Association, Prof. Zion Hagai, said of the new corona strain: “There is not enough data on the Americon.

"I am in contact with doctors in South Africa, including the chairman of the Histadrut there, and I hear that it harms young people and children and we have no data on the severity of the disease and how it will affect adults. Every cake we do not have enough information.

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