GIMAL Mabot: The reform in military medicine is revealed
The main points of the plan presented by the IDF are the implementation of digital means and the addition of personnel to the various units, which will prevent long waits for treatment. Another planned change is the method of receiving the "gimelim", which will be awarded through a "bot", which will be able to block a soldier who requests them too often
Amir Bohbot
01/08/2022
Monday, August 01, 2022, 5:00 p.m. Updated: 5:01 p.m.
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In the video: Chief Medical Officer refers to the health reform in the IDF (Photo: Doch)
The IDF announced this week the lines of new medical services that will be provided as part of the service in the army. This, following many reports criticizing its conduct in the medical field, and many complaints regarding the lack of manpower, long lines, the quality of the medical service, as well as tension between the command in the field and the doctors and medical teams, who carry the main burden.
The main points of the reform that were presented were the implementation of digital means and the addition of medical personnel in the IDF, which will prevent waiting for treatment.
Among other things, it was decided to establish new clinics in Yosh and Arava, renovate 117 clinics, outsource some of the medical services, and establish dozens of remote medicine complexes. Also in the field of mental health care in the IDF, an upgrade will be made that will include the addition of dozens of medical staff, easy scheduling of appointments, and training It was also decided to establish a virtual center, which will provide medical guidance to the soldiers in the afternoon, and it was decided that there would be an "ultrasound for every battalion".
Medical Corps (photo: IDF spokesperson)
As part of the program, the Medical Corps decided to hire about 50 service managers in the clinics, in order to streamline the work in them, and to prevent bureaucracy and bottlenecks in queues, including improving awareness of the service.
Another gap that will be addressed will be the medical files, which will undergo a digitization process that at this stage creates burden and bureaucracy.
The IDF's program to improve routine medicine includes the services provided as part of a "doctor's visit", which draw criticism mainly regarding the length of the long queues. According to army officials, the length of the queues has decreased in the past year and soon additional changes will be made to reduce the waiting time.
In the meantime, the IDF will establish Dedicated complexes for remote medicine, which will allow the soldier serving at the base to have a doctor-patient meeting with a specialist who sits anywhere in the country.
The complexes, which are actually air-conditioned and private rooms, equipped with medical equipment that allows a doctor to guide the soldier on how to check himself remotely, will be installed by the middle of next year at 22 different bases, and will make specialist medicine accessible to the units.
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Medical Corps (photo: IDF spokesperson)
It was also decided to establish a medical complex in Arava, which is equipped with advanced medical equipment, a home for the elderly, a physical therapy institute, dental services and more.
The complex will save the IDF many training days for soldiers, who until now had to travel long hours to the center and the north of the country in order to receive reasonable medical treatment, and today they will receive special transportation services to the clinic.
Similar to the Arabah, the IDF plans to improve medical care in Judea as well and Samaria, and in 2023, dedicated rooms for remote medicine will be placed in the various helicopters. It was also decided to purchase 90 new ultrasound devices for the medical officers in the battalions and clinics, in a way that will allow each battalion to have imaging capabilities. The army also reports on other innovations in the field of dentistry, including new dental equipment and medical equipment Advanced The highlight in this context is the use of an innovative digital crown lathe, which is capable of producing high quality crowns quickly.
Medical Corps (photo: IDF spokesperson)
In addition, the IDF will expand the agreement with the pharmacies to 19 additional pharmacies, and nine digital stations will be placed in end units to withdraw medication, which will be loaded by a qualified pharmacist ahead of time, and will allow the soldier to receive medication that was prescribed for him without an appointment. Permanent employees will be given Possibility to order medicines to the house. The
IDF is also interested in improving the field of mental health, after it became clear that the average waiting time for a medical examiner in the IDF is 51 days.
In addition to recruiting additional personnel for the mental health system, the army will for the first time make it possible to make an appointment for a medical center also through the medical corps' appointment application.
Eliminated an order of gimelim
In the medical corps, it was decided to expand the treatment of providing "gimalim" to soldiers.
According to the Medical Corps data, last year there were 2,558,283 meetings between doctors and servants in the IDF, even though it is a young and healthy population. In accordance with these unusual data, it was decided to start an experimental program that includes a "bot", which will answer the soldiers' questions, and refer them to human medical care, and in other cases, to give disability benefits.
The army points out that the way to deal with the problem is to limit the quota of sick days that a soldier can receive, using the "bot", which will block a soldier who serially withdraws sick leave. Soldiers in training and training will not be able to use this technology.
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