From next Wednesday, the vaccination campaign will be launched in its new format, as we announced earlier today.
But "Israel Today" has learned that although there is a desire to expand the vaccination campaign dramatically, there are only 400 student health nurses who have joined the mission and will join the operation.
As you may recall, the Home Front Command, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education began last week the vaccination campaign in the schools of students in primary schools (Sunday-Friday).
Vaccine vaccines have already been deployed in several cities such as Yavne, Zemer, Rahat and Karnei Shomron.
However, Israel Today has now learned that the schools have been notified that the vaccines through the mobility system will be abolished, and in their place those who will be vaccinated against Corona will only be the school nurses, who have a lower supply.
PM Bennett: "The ultimate goal in the next two weeks - childhood vaccines" Credit: Omer Miron / GPO
Those who have so far conducted the vaccinations in the schools were outside teams of companies that won the tender, such as Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics. Special cooling that brought the vaccines.
On the other hand, the number of unvaccinated students in the education system aged 5-11 stands at 874,000 unvaccinated students.
Given that each nurse can vaccinate up to 100 students a day the number of nurses who will participate in the operation is critical.
Education Minister Yifat Shasha Bitton // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,
In the education system, there are about 3,000 elementary schools.
Therefore, it is not known what will happen in three weeks when school nurses will have to go back and vaccinate routine immunizations.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's main goal is to increase the percentage of vaccinated students who are at a low of 26.7% of only vaccinated students.
(Of the total education system of over 2 million students only 620,000 are vaccinated students).
Those we have vaccinated from now on are the "school nurses" who are employed by outside companies and during the year vaccinate the students with routine vaccines - now they have been instructed to stop their activities and for the next three weeks to deal exclusively with corona vaccines.
At the opening of the Ministry of Education meeting today, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said: "In the next two weeks, the main national task of the State of Israel, the Israeli government and the education system is to vaccinate and protect Israeli children quickly before the main wave arrives.
Bennett in the Prime Minister's Office, Photo: Yonatan Zindel / Flash 90
Bennett stressed that "the operation depends on two parameters - parental consent and the scope of medical manpower allocated by the Ministry of Health and will enter the education system. The education system cooperates fully with the Ministry of Health, Home Front Command and all partners.
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