In the city of Modi'in Elite, all second-grade children at the "Drachei Yosher" Talmud Torah school, located in the Brachfeld neighborhood, went into isolation. This was after the results of a test conducted by one of the students in the class on the eve of Shavuot came back and revealed that he was a carrier of the virus.
One of the children in the class, a member of a large family whose parents received a phone call from the Talmud Torah administration, was also placed in isolation. It is important to emphasize that the child sat next to the sick child for three days, morning and afternoon, and then returned home. In light of this, there is a reasonable chance that the family member was infected and contagious.
However, while his mother requested a test for him, the Clalit health insurance company refused. This is in contrast to other health insurance companies that invited the families of the children in the class to be tested - with some of the companies even allowing all family members to be tested.
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And so, while there is concern that the child himself may have been infected by his friend, all his brothers and sisters, as well as the parents, leave the house for schools, daycare, 'Haider', work and shopping. "They have no real responsibility, just dry, pointless rules," says the mother.
Now you can only imagine how irresponsible the fund management is: what kind of infection could break out in the city when this entire family is roaming freely, while the child is refused a test.
The mother tells Haredim 10: "This morning we explained the matter in such a logical way, one doctor understood and the other said there was no need. Now all the 'Haider' are getting tests, except for those insured by 'Clalit'.".
""They are impudent," she continues. "We at Clalit and for the sake of the community wanted to do a test that if it comes out negative, we will still be in some doubt, but if it is positive - we need to know. All the funds have approved for the students and Clalit is still causing problems.".
According to her, "They should have chased us in this situation to get us to do the tests and not the other way around. It would be very difficult for us to get a positive answer... and in any case, we have a responsibility.".
""Isolating one child is very difficult physically and emotionally. He fell asleep on the balcony in a hammock, and we don't go in there - and I was afraid he would catch a cold. I had to wake him up in all sorts of ways to move to the room where he was sleeping. In his sleep, he put on a mask and moved. Then I saw that he was sleeping with the mask on and I was afraid that he wouldn't breathe well, so I had to somehow take it off and immediately wash my hands, and all with tears, because it's hard, he's still little... He's just a second-grade boy.".
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