The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, commented today (Tuesday), as part of a discussion in the Health Committee headed by MK Idit Silman On the topic of "the collapse of hospitals due to the Corona virus" - the state of morbidity from the virus.
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The Director General of the Ministry of Health said: "The wave has not passed. The number of confirmed cases now is still higher than any wave. The burdens are still high.".
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He added: "We had close to 100,000 confirmed cases per day and the number of infected people was close to twice that. Although the variant causes mild illness, certainly for those who are vaccinated, eventually you end up with a number of seriously ill patients and it reached close to 200 seriously ill patients per day.".
""The health system in Israel has not collapsed, neither the health funds nor the hospitals and the Ministry of Health, but the congestion in hospitals has a difficult price. We have seen ambulances waiting at the entrance to the emergency room. The congestion has had a cost in human lives, the ability to treat is impaired and mortality is rising. It also has a price in the attrition of medical teams.".
The Director General of the Ministry of Health further said that they will demand additional funding for the health system from the Prime Minister.
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