La clinica non accetta nuove richieste
Tempo medio di risposta — 5 minuti
Alena Veyman
Apr 2, 2020
My mom Ludmila Gofman(77) Holocaust survivor has been admitted to Meir Hospital (Kfar Saba) on April 1st to Corona Bet department. She was admitted from Geriatric rehab center where she was receiving rehabilitation following surgery to repair a hip fracture, which she suffered in early March. Out of 30 people at the center (patients and staff) 15 were determined to be carriers of COVID-19. In addition to the current issues of COVID and broken hip she is a chronic sufferer… of diabetes and has received a stent in her heart. Because of the broken hip she cannot move without assistance anywhere. But while all that is known she cannot get any of the necessary medical treatments regardless of the COVID status. She needs a wheelchair to go to the bathroom, she needs insulin, monitoring of her blood sugar and such. From what we were told by her and some other patients whom we have reached by phone medical personnel cannot be reached even with a call button. A doctor who came to check this morning on them and was asked to request a wheel chair for her to go to the bathroom told her to do this into the diaper that they put on her and someone will come in to change it but the nurses and other medical personnel come in and out and say: later and she was in this for at least 6 hours prior to the doctor's visit. From the descriptions we can only conclude that the conditions in which they are being held are designed for them to die as quickly as possible or as slow as possible and the best way I can describe it is "a concentration camp for the sick". I've spoken with Miri from Public Relations and was told that the treatment that "The treatment that these people receive is the one that was prescribed by the Ministry of Health". I am frankly appalled if this is actually true that the Ministry would design treatment that would basically ignore all needs of the patients and seemingly just leave them to die! I am writing to you as a last resort because I have exhausted all other options and given my current location I cannot help her in person. And while some may be considering that my mother may be suffering from delusions I can assure you it is not the case. She is active in the community and up until a couple of years go was a director of a elder care housing (she would have stayed if not forcibly retired) in Kfar Saba.
