Sanctions by public sector doctors continued today (Monday) in the hospitals from Hadera northward. The Israel Medical Association (IMA) said the Treasury had refused to discuss upgrading manpower in the hospitals and failed to advance on salary negotiations.
The strike was held today on all medical centers on a reduced “Shabbat schedule” with only urgent and lifesaving operations. The affected general hospitals are Rambam, Hillel Yaffe, Bnei Zion, Carmel, Emek, Ziv and Nahariya. The mental health centers affected are Mizra, Tirat Hacarmel, Shaare Menashe, Flieman and the Shoham Geriatric Center.
Doctors on strike today to save the health system
On Tuesday, all hospitals from Rehovot southward, including Jerusalem, will have the same reduced Shabbat schedule. They include Barzilai, Kaplan, Soroka, Bikur Holim, the two Hadassah University Medical Centers and Shaare Zedek. The affected psychiatric and geriatric hospitals include Nes Zion, Be’er Ya’acov, Eitanim, Kfar Shaul, Shmuel Harofeh and Hartzfeld.
On Wednesday, the same sanctions will occur in the center of the country. The affected hospitals will be Sheba, Tel Aviv Sourasky, both the Beilinson and Hasharon Campuses of the Rabin Medical Center, Schneider, Wolfson, Assaf Harofeh, Meir, Shalvata, Geha, Beit Rivka, Beit Loewenstein, Pardesia, Netanya Geriatric Hospital and Abarbanel. On Thursday, only oncological surgery and other urgent operations will be performed in all the hospitals. The rest of hospital activities will carry on.
