A Yisrael Hayom report on Tuesday revealed that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett instructed senior Health Ministry officials to compromise on standards of healthcare in order to reach “certain numbers.”
Dr. Miki Halbertal, director of Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, participated in meetings last week with Bennett and senior officials from the Health and Finance Ministries. Halbertal said that during a discussion about the capability [or incapability] of hospitals to treat hundreds to thousands of severely ill coronavirus patients, the atmosphere became very tense, with Bennett and other senior government officials placing a tremendous amount of pressure on coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash and other senior health officials.
“We need to reach these numbers,” Bennett said. “Compromise, lower the standards – everything is acceptable.”
Other officials at the meeting told Bennett: “If we truly reach these numbers and people begin to die on the street, no one will ever vote for you again. Think about what you’re saying.”
Dr. Halbertal said that Bennett persisted with his plan. “Senior government officials issued a directive that the health care system must provide a solution for a ‘red’ scenario of 2,400 severely ill patients. But the Finance Ministry is not interested in providing funds for it. I told Bennett: ‘You can’t expect us to provide solutions without giving us resources.'”
“I told them that we can’t currently treat even 1,200 severely ill patients. We have 60 beds in Rambam and they told me I need to have 270 beds. I said I can’t do that.”
“I told Bennett that the government has thrown the hospitals to the dogs with the existing budget and if I don’t resist, then the doctors and nurses will resist. Everyone is fed up.”
Dr. Halbertal added that hospitals’ coronavirus wards are already overflowing and unlike the third wave, which subsided due to Israel’s vaccination campaign, this time there is no solution in sight.
Is is truly frightening how this report, accompanied by others, shows how Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Leiberman have much more “important things” on their agenda than saving human lives. And the same applies to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and other senior government officials, who haven’t even bothered to be involved in discussions on the coronavirus crisis.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Don’t be ridiculous. They’re trying everything they can to avoid another lockdown, which causes harm on so many levels. The main way to avoid a lockdown (assuming a lockdown would even work at that point) is to increase the capacity at the hospitals.
Ok let’s analyze. If they do a lockdown everyone screams. If they try to avoid a lockdown by increasing beds available, everyone screams. What exactly would YOU pundits propose?
So Bennet’s getting hit from both sides, eh? Shutting down is too much, and leaving it open is too much. No politician can win. Period. Please take a look at India. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/
Delta started there and it will stop here. We’ve got about another 2 weeks of peaking, nobody’s going to die in the streets.
Yisrael Hayom, is a pro Likud owned paper……this is propaganda!
And we’re supposed to trust them and people of their ilk about health measures. The US Corona bosses, such as Fauci are no better at all. None of them have any regard for human life.
One might wonder how an almost fully vaccinated country is experiencing such a dramatic uptick in cases. Especially during the summer. Hmmm. Do your research.
So what happened to “G-d’s gift to mankind”, these shots?
The Zionists were so proud to continue their time-“honored” tradition of using their citizens as human medical experiments for these shots. Yet, between all the people with antibodies and all the ones who got the shots, they’re now having a crisis?
No offense, but how bad is Israel’s health care system? Here in Illinois, our population is approximately the same as the state of Israel. We have almost 200 covid patients on ventilators statewide, 400 in ICU, out of 1800 total hospitalized. This is essentially twice what they have in Israel. As a physician who works in the hospital, sometimes in the ICU, I can assure you this is not making much of a dent on our ICU capacity, and our hospitals are certainly not overflowing.
“Dr. Halbertal added that hospitals’ coronavirus wards are already overflowing and unlike the third wave, which subsided due to Israel’s vaccination campaign, this time there is no solution in sight.”
This is the typical allopathic narrative spewed by those indoctrinated (and then credentialed as ‘drs. of doctrination’!) by allopathic: ‘treat the effect, ignore holism and the general cause’ methodologies.
The vacuum-ation campaign creates immune systems in its recipients similar to substances that create drunks from those only slightly inebriated, and stuporous, even lower response immune systems from the already drunk. Alpha variant (Wuhan), beta (S. Africa), delta (India), and further on through the Greek alphabet they create through the adaption of ‘necessity’, until the ‘sheeple’ abstain of the ‘white sugar’, ‘trust my shot-in-the-arm, shot-in-the-foot’ convenient cultish advisements.
Prime Minister Bennett’s small Kippah reminds me of a Charedi comment I heard as a youngster: small Yarmulka, small brain.
I’m no Bennett fan, but taking a Israel Hayom article about Bennett seriously is like taking a CNN piece about Trump at face value.