'Coronavirus patients are being neglected - and are dying'

Arutz Sheva ^ | 26/10/20

[Eleutheria5]

A group of physicians at a hospital in central Israel have accused the medical center’s coronavirus ward of failing to properly care for patients suffering from the coronavirus, claiming patients in serious condition have died from neglect.

Nine doctors working in the coronavirus ward at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon have filed a joint complaint to the hospital’s management over its handling of coronavirus patients, Israel Hayom reported Monday morning.

The nine doctors complained of a lack of medical equipment, malfunctioning respirators, chronic neglect and mishandling of coronavirus cases which led to patients in the coronavirus ward dying.

The complaint was filed last Monday, with the doctors notifying senior hospital officials, including its director-general, Dr. Anat Engel, who was notified in person in an impromptu meeting in her office.

Patients in distress are said to have waited for hours for their calls for help to nursing staff to be answered, adding that a serious lack of medical equipment has hampered treatment.

In a letter penned by one of the doctors to hospital administrators, one of the nine physicians wrote that the coronavirus ward suffered from a “serious” manpower shortage.

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[Eleutheria5]

At the start of the pandemic, in February, I underwent a hip replacement at Hadassah of Mt. Scopus. My orthopedist came in and explained to me that he was also fighting the coronavirus, and he was wearing an expensive mask with its own oxygen supply that expanded and contracted like a bullfrog's neck. Seems they were shorthanded then, too.

[webheart]

If they didn’t die of neglect they probably wouldn’t die which makes the pandemic look weak. In order to keep up the funding you can’t have a weak pandemic.

[dp0622]

In Israel? To what end?

[Eleutheria5]

If it were America, you’d be right. But in Israel, there are only so many doctors, and they’re usually very busy in the first place just handling the ordinary health-care needs of the population. I don’t think they can afford to play Cuomo games here.

[aposiopetic]

Mt. Scopus

Would seem just the perfect spot for an endoscopy as well. < / jk >

[SJackson]

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