COVID patients transferred to hospitals in Jerusalem due to heavy loads

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COVID-19 patients who reside in the Central District of Israel and require hospitalization are transferred to hospitals in Jerusalem due to the growing number of hospitalized patients in coronavirus units.

Some 800 coronavirus patients are hospitalized across Israel as of Saturday, including 450 patients in serious condition and 74 on ventilators.

Since Friday, eight patients were transferred from hospitals in the center of Israel to ones in Jerusalem. Currently, small hospitals in central Israel – such as Laniado Hospital in Netanya and Mayanei HaYeshua Medical Center in Bnei Bark – are the one which seems to be under heavy loads.

Moreover, Israel’s Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev said he had recommended that the school year be postponed by one month to October 1.

COVID patient being monitored in Herzog Medical Center in Jerusalem, last month. Ohad Zwigenberg

Bar-Lev said that starting the school year regularly “has no sense” because of the surging number of patients and the small amount of school days in September.

The government is forecasting that the number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus will double every 10 days, reaching 4,800 people – half of them with serious cases – by September 10.

According to Health Ministry figures, the number of serious COVID cases rose on Wednesday to 400, the highest figure since March. About 150 of these patients are not fully vaccinated. Israel hit its highest number of serious cases in January, with 1,200 patients – about half of the number predicted for next month.

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Due to this projection, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz agreed on Tuesday to add new health care positions each time the number of hospitalized patients doubles.

Israel’s hospitals learned on Tuesday that they would receive funding to take on an additional 600 doctors and 1,500 nurses if the government’s forecasts are correct and the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients reaches 4,800 in the next month, with half of them being serious cases.

But many health care leaders warned that the extra staff won’t have a profound impact anytime soon because it will take time for them to be trained in treating COVID-19 patients in the midst of a crisis. Their contribution will only be felt only weeks, if not months, after they are hired.