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    Hospitals throughout Israel have reported overcrowding as a result of a widespread outbreak of flu in the country. While the Health Ministry says there has been a light decline over the past few days, it added that "the numbers are still expected to rise."

    The flu outbreak has particularly affected children's wards at the country's hospitals, where the occupancy rate stands at 98 percent. In some cities - including Netanya, Tel Aviv, Hadera and Petah Tikva - occupancy rates hover around 150%.

    Numerous cases of severe flu-like illnesses have also been reported by doctors in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Netanya, Hod Hasharon and Rehovot in recent days.

    Internal medicine wards have also been experiencing overcrowding, with occupancy rates in hospitals in Netanya, Jerusalem, Hadera, Afula and Ashkelon at around 150%.

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    Some wards in large cities strained by occupancy rates of around 150%; almost half of cases caused by a strain of swine flu, which caused a global epidemic in 2009.

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    Re: Flu outbreak leads to overcrowding in hospitals across Israel

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    Load hospital'' Meyer'' due to an increase in the number of patients the effect
    Noam Landman 31/01/2013

    Different emergency departments were week occupancy of 150 percent compared to the rest of the season. Doctors departments recommend going to the family doctor non-urgent cases, to avoid long queues and sorting loads and to avoid unnecessary clinging
    Last Tuesday we got to the hospital'' Meyer'' Kfar Saba, to see how the team deals with existing loads are expected to continue next month. Due to the increase in flu patients last two weeks, have various hospitals in the country, including hospital'' Meyer'', to deal with the various departments density. primary emergency department met the'' Dr. Mario D. Stern, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine, describing how the team conducted Under load:'' the last two weeks were very difficult, now little more subdued, number of patients by 50% more than normal occupancy. We operate under what is called a hot-bed, when the gravely ill get a bed, and medium and light wait until that becomes available bed.'' It turns out that the patient population these days are the ages of the edges, ie, the elderly and children.'' D'' Dr. Stern adds that:'' The problem with the elderly is that many of them already have a history of heart disease and lung or digestive tract, and they get the flu situation deteriorates easily than a person without such medical history. While you want to admit it, but there's always room in intensive care and it does not state sympathetic.'' doctors, nurses and other personnel in the'' Meyer'' recommend that anyone who is really sick, it is better not to come to avoid queues and sorting loads as well as to not get something worse. The doctors' recommendation is to go to the family doctor and run sorting, germ-laden anyway. According to the team,'' a man can get sick more than he came.'' D'' Dr. David Shitrit, Director of the lung in the hospital'' Meyer'', highlights the reasons for the increase in hospital occupancy:'' We are seeing an increase in patients with flu and its complications

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      Hospitals Struggle to Cope with Rising Swine Flu in Israel

      1/31/2013

      "...Four Israelis are currently hospitalized in critical condition as a result of the disease. They include a 32-year-old man at Soroka Medical Center in Be?er Sheva, a 50-year-old man at Haifa?s Rambam Hospital, an 83-year-old woman and a 75-year-old man, both at Tel Aviv?s Ichilov Hospital. Three of the four are patients who have chronic illnesses.

      ...Landiado Hospital, also known as Sanz Medical Center, this week reported it was forced to transform its cafeteria into a makeshift ward with patient beds, as the hospital's census soared to more than 55 percent over full capacity.

      Both Rambam Medical Center and Bnei Zion Hospital in Haifa reported that they, too, were at full capacity and were diverting patients internally from one department to the next as they struggled to care for the rising numbers of patients with the H1N1 virus who were arriving at their emergency rooms."



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        Re: Flu outbreak leads to overcrowding in hospitals across Israel

        Opinion: Roll up your sleeve



        Just as almond trees blossom in February and the beaches begin to fill up in June, the chaotic scene in the country?s hospitals every winter returns with predictable regularity.

        The emergency rooms and pediatric and internal medicine departments are packed; helpless patients cry out for nurses who say they are close to collapsing; and Health Ministry officials open their wallets for emergency measures.

        But the health authorities never seem to do anything serious to prevent people of all ages from developing influenza complications such as pneumonia and other infections that ? in those with weak immune systems and chronic diseases ? can kill them.

        Flu vaccinations were not always free. At first, only those regarded as being at high risk of complications ? the elderly, people of all ages living or working in institutions and individuals suffering from heart disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses ? were eligible for free shots. Then it became free for everybody, and, a few years ago, the ministry recommended that everybody above the age of six months should get a flu shot at their health fund clinic.


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        The Health Ministry has done nothing to persuade Israelis to get the annual flu shot. But it can be done, with creative thinking.

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