Following the attack on the medical staff at Hadassah: The Medical Association announced a strike on Thursday
The strike is expected to last a day, and will include public hospitals and clinics.
The chairman of the Histadrut said that they took this step after previously announcing that they would not tolerate incidents of violence in the health care system in silence.
Meirav Cohen
17/05/2022
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 20:48 Updated: 21:03
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In the video: Medical staff at Hadassah Hospital attacked by a patient's family (Hadassah spokeswoman)
The Medical Association announced tonight (Tuesday) a 24-hour strike this coming Thursday, in protest of the violent incident that took place last night at Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.
The strike will be attended by all public hospitals and community clinics, and doctors will work during it on a Saturday-only basis.
At the beginning of the meeting of the organization's secretariat that convened today, the chairman of the Medical Association, Prof. Zion Hagai, said that "we have long since announced that we will no longer accept incidents of violence in the health system, which have unfortunately become a real epidemic.
The lives of the doctors must not be abandoned, and the preparatory strike is only a warning signal.
"As long as the Israeli government does not immediately take the necessary steps to increase the personal security of the medical staff, we will not hesitate to tighten the steps."
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The family of a patient who died in Hadassah hit the medical staff and damaged the equipment
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Violence against medical staff at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem.
May 16, 2022 (Photo: Official website, Hadassah Hospital spokeswoman)
Among the steps required by the Histadrut were placing police points in each emergency room, increasing the security system in hospitals and community clinics, assimilating assistive technologies and changing legislation.
This is so that attacking a medical staff member will not be different from attacking a uniformed police officer.
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