Hundreds of demonstrators at the interns' protest in Tel Aviv: "There will be no replacements for the hundreds who are resigning among us"

The interns gathered in the city's stage plaza and from there began marching towards the home of the Minister of Health, where the police blocked the way.

The demonstration is taking place after last week about 500 interns submitted letters of resignation following the government's failure to comply with its commitment to implement an outline for shortening intern shifts to 18 hours

Merav Cohen

30/08/2022

Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 10:52 p.m. Updated: 11:13 p.m.

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Hundreds of interns demonstrate on the stage in Tel Aviv in protest of the length of the shifts (Walla system)

About 300 people are demonstrating this evening (Tuesday) in Tel Aviv in protest of the length of duty of the specialist doctors.

The demonstration began at the stage plaza in the city, and later the demonstrators began marching to the home of Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz in the city, where the police blocked the way.

Among the demonstrators are interns, students and the public who came to support the interns.

"We came here, male and female students, interns, to tell the Prime Minister - the hundreds of interns who are resigning, today's slaves, will not have replacements!"

Eran Dotan, a fifth-year medical student in Tel Aviv, said in his speech.

He turned to Prime Minister Lapid and said, "The government you lead has not changed anything in the impossible reality of the interns, and that's enough, it's no longer possible. No more slavery."

"It is enough to surrender to the interest groups, to the closed club of friends," he continued.

"Do not submit to the leaders of the Medical Association, the guardians of slavery, do not join the thugs in Rambam and Ziv.

Cut the shifts now!

Our goal is one - to add new standards to the system, inject new blood, refresh and improve.

We are not spoiled, nor whiners, nor anarchists, nor terrorists."

Hundreds came to demonstrate in Tel Aviv.

The demonstration, this evening (photo: official website, the organization of the registration interns)

Last week, about 500 interns submitted their letters of resignation, which will take effect next month.

This, after the Minister of Health Nitzan Horvitz and the Minister of the Economy Orna Barbibai went back on their commitment to outline the shortening of intern shifts to 18 hours, which was supposed to start in April of this year and was postponed until September of next year.

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