The hospitals began to report a significant increase in occupancy in the inpatient wards, with the majority of those hospitalized being influenza and other respiratory diseases, including pneumonia and other respiratory viruses, and not necessarily corona.
The Niado Hospital in Netanya reported On peak occupancy – 124% in boarding schools and 129% in pediatric wards; Three hospitals – the Galilee in Nahariya, Kaplan in Rehovot and Hillel Yaffe in Hadera reported 120% occupancy in each of the boarding schools; Rambam Haifa for 110%, Haemek in Afula 104% and Ichilov Tel Aviv, Assuta Ashdod and Beilinson for 100% in each of them.
The department managers admit: ‘Influenza season’ is just beginning. “
One of the main problems in this regard: the rate of vaccination against influenza which is still low, significantly, compared to last year – only about 17% of the population.
Last night, the chairman of the Intensive Care Association, Dr. Yaron Bar-Lavi, said in an interview with “Here 11” that it seems that a very high rate of flu patients are now young people, some of whom also suffer from background illnesses. And expressed concern about the combination of Corona’s morbidity with influenza when the shortage of beds in intensive care continued. Hillel Yaffe – 1, Bnei Zion – 2, Meir – 3, Schneider – 2 children with background illnesses. There are 390 intensive care units in Israel, in about 70 of which Corona patients are hospitalized and at least 600 beds are missing.
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