Between 4000 and 6000 Israelis die annually in as a result of contracting infection in one of the nation’s hospitals, including infections which do not respond to antibiotics. This number is larger than the number of Israelis killed in vehicular accidents and terrorist attacks combined.
Yediot Achronot correspondent Rotem Elizera on Sunday morning, released an Israel Health Ministry report rating the most infected hospitals in Israel.
The hospitals were divided into three categories – large hospitals, medium sized and small hospitals; in order to permit a reasonable comparison as the large hospitals see far more patients than the small one do.
How was the study conducted?
The Health Ministry selected a measure, “the warning germs”, those bacteria which do not respond to many antibiotics available in hospitals, – per each 100,000 days of patient hospitalization. Yediot adds that the bacteria checked includes CPE bacteria that are resistant to most drugs and spread almost exclusively in the hospital system and cause high mortality, their carriers remain in isolation; VRE-resistant bacteria with potential for spread in hospitals; Bacteriostatic “acinetobacter” bacteria, which primarily affect hospitalized patients and patients in intensive care units; Clostridium bacteria, mainly affecting the intestines.
Rating of large hospitals:
Beilinson (Petach Tikvah) 132 infections
Hadassah Ein Kerem (Jerusalem) 116 infections
Ichilov (Tel Aviv) 107 infections
Sheba (Tel Hashomer) 93 infections
Rambam (Haifa) 74 infections
Soroka (Be’er Sheva) 52 infections
Rating of moderate sized hospitals:
Bnei Tzion (Haifa) 156 infections
Shaare Zedek (Jerusalem) 127 infections
Wolfson (Holon) 119 infections
Carmel (Haifa) 117 infections
Assaf HaRofeh (Rishon L’Tzion) 111 infections
Barzilai (Ashkelon) 76 infections
Kaplan (Rehovot) 70 infections
Galil Hospital (Nahariya) 57 infections
Hillel Yafeh (Hadera) 54 infections
HaEmek (Afula) 41
Meir (Kfar Sava) 41 infections
Rating of small hospitals:
Hasharon (Petach Tikvah) 161 infections
Laniado (Netanya) 104 infections
Mayanei HaYeshua (Bnei Brak) 86 infections
Poriah (Tiveria) 83 infections
Schneider (Petach Tikvah) 71 infections
Ziv (Tzefas) 55 infections
Hadassah Mt. Scopus (Jerusalem) 54 infections
Assuta (Ashdod) 51 infections
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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And the point is?
Wow, wow, wow!
The point is that all the outrage about measles outbake in orthodox communities is just a smoke screen for real problems facing modern medicine. These super bugs, created in hospitals by overuse of antibiotics are wiping out millions every year world wide! And there aren’t any vaccines for this stuff.
Yet you don’t hear much about such mass killers. Where are those 500 Frum doctors on this issue??? Any great ideas for solving this one??? I mean 4000 to 6000 patients dead just in Israel in one year is absolutely unacceptable!!!
Yet, all you hear is “selfish anti-vaxxers are spreading measles” propaganda.
Selective outrage 101
The Ministry of Health is opposed to the legalization of Cannabis because it is dangerous. Yet the deaths or injury caused by illegal Cannabis is negligible and come nowhere near these numbers. If the Ministry of Health were really interested in protecting the health of the public, these hospital statistics would be zero. There are dozens of new and proven ways to disinfect hospitals. Why are they not being done in Israel? The entire hospital system in Israel is broken. We need to double the number of hospital beds but instead obstacles are place to prevent new hospitals from opening because the tea sippers in various hospitals are worried they might loose their easy jobs. All this is while doctors and nurses are significantly underpaid and over worked.