Israel - Hospitalization shortage continues: "Patients are paying with their lives"

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Hospitalization shortage continues: "Patients are paying with their lives"

מאת: אריאל נוי, מערכת וואלה!​

By: Ariel Noy, Walla!

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יום ראשון, 30 בינואר 2011, 17:30​

Sunday, 30 January 2011, 17:30​

Recover winter increased the misery of hospitalization and rising to new heights: internal departments have 150% occupancy 200%.

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Medical Association Chairman: "The patients do not receive adequate treatment abject conditions



Winter returned last week increased the misery of our region to new heights hospitalization: internal departments occupancy reached today (Sunday) at multiple hospitals in the country than usual.

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Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, for example, recorded 150% occupancy.Laniado Hospital in Netanya, Hillel Yaffe similar percentages.

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Laniado Hospital nurse told Walla!

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News that "meaning is the standard percentage of 38 beds and we have 60 patients and we fall off my feet. We are not sufficient to treat patients, and know that if they do not get proper treatment, the patients also fail."

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Medical Association chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman says that "the situation is intolerable, the patients did not receive adequate treatment in appalling conditions." According to Edelman, the solution offered to "ridiculous", so he petitioned the High Court against the lack of funding. "Patients are now in the team can not handle them and they pay with their lives.

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We seek a fundamental change in hospitals, and hope that the High Court will give instructions to act within a year, and within five years, to this fiasco will not last, "he said.​

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