The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Siman Tov, and senior officials in the health system held an emergency meeting with representatives of the medical union, against the background of fears of a wave of emigration of doctors in protest against the government’s plan to weaken the judiciary, which constitutes a crisis in the health system.
According to estimates presented by officials of the Medical Association in Israel during the meeting, about 500 doctors (of various specialties) intend to leave Israel, “which may put Israel in the face of a very serious health crisis,” according to what was reported by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, “Kan 11 “.
Officials in the health system emphasized that “even if the number of departing doctors does not exceed 300, it is expected that the crisis will be complex and difficult, given that talking about doctors of rare specialties does not include a large number of specialists; and officials in the Ministry of Health and the Medical Syndicate intend to hold A series of meetings with the doctors involved in an attempt to convince them to stay.
Kan 11 stated that the scheme drawn up by Bar Siman Tov includes, in the first stage, an attempt by senior officials in the health system to meet with doctors’ representatives or the doctors themselves, discuss their concerns and try to convince them to stay in Israel. In the next stage, the Director General of the Ministry of Health will present the situation to the Minister of Health, Moshe Arbel, to discuss ways to solve the problem.
Recently, reports indicated an increase in the efforts of Israeli doctors to leave the country abroad, against the background of the plan to weaken the judiciary pushed by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. While Emirati officials made “attractive offers” in order to attract some of them.
In a related context, new data, included in the report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), revealed the difficult situation of the health system in Israel, which is witnessing a shortage of doctors, according to the report. From the occupancy rates in the internal departments of the hospitals, it appears that there are not enough doctors for the other departments; Therefore, patients are often placed in the inpatient departments, due to the lack of beds and medical staff.
The data showed that occupancy rates in the internal departments of hospitals in Israel reached more than 100% in most hospitals.
2023-08-03 08:58:02
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