Doctors’ cry: “This is the most difficult situation ever – optimistic predictions have come true”

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Contracting – and collapsing: The gap between the optimistic atmosphere of vaccines, the one that holds that it is possible to return to routine – and what is happening within the walls of hospitals, is unbearable.

Starting the vaccination campaign for teenagers, on Sunday // Photo: Paz Bar

The heavy and ongoing congestion in the corona wards of the hospitals in Jerusalem and Haifa is a matter of great concern and constitutes the platform for the Ministry of Health’s calls to extend the closure. Dr. Kobi Habib, director of Herzog Hospital in the capital, believes there is room to continue the closure “for another week.” In his opinion, “the optimistic forecasts have come true and at the moment the load here is extremely heavy.”
In a conversation with “Israel Today”, Dr. Habib claims that the absolute number of corona patients in the country is “the most difficult ever. There are a huge number of about 70,000 corona patients in the country, of whom 1,200 are in critical condition, of which 400 are in critical condition. This is a number that has never been. The trend is positive and the vaccine is doing its thing, but it is not enough. There are 8,000-7,000 new patients a day today. “
Medical staff in the Corona ward at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, last week // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
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“We have been in heavy loads for a long time without a break, with about 110 corona patients with us at any given moment, half of them in a difficult to very difficult condition. We may be in danger of having a patient who needs an intensive care bed and will not be able to receive it “Contact us and we have opened a dedicated ward for the benefit of Corona patients who have recovered, but still need the soul machines. The reality is that we are struggling on every intensive care unit.”

Prof. Dror Mevorach, director of the Corona Department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, describes a gloomy situation: “There are record numbers of Corona patients who were unparalleled with critically ill patients, and need more attention. “100% with 145 corona patients, of whom more than 90 are critical and critical and 34 are in intensive care. There is an increase in mortality throughout the country and in our country as well, this is due to the fact that there are very many patients.

At Rambam in Haifa, the load and despair are a little more comfortable – relatively of course. “The general number of patients in the Corona treatment complex remains stable, but the number of difficult and respiratory patients is a bit high, probably compared to the previous wave,” says Dr. hospital.

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The patients are light at home, she says, and they get “only the harder and more complex ones.” Despite the closure and immunization rates, the number of newly verified daily remains high. The reason? “Apparently this is an effect of the mutation and the fact that the closure is not as tight as in the first wave,” Black-attributed believes. “More than 8,000 new positives for Corona are numbers that unfortunately.”

The director of Bnei Zion Hospital in the city, Dr. Ohad Hochman, declares that he is “against closures. Only if there is no choice, and at the moment we are in a situation of no choice. In all indices we are at a peak since the epidemic. In patients. “

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