THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 27, 1973-19
Due to the death of our founder
MRS. HARRY CHUNG
(Chung's Restaurant)
3177 Cass Ave., Detroit
Will Be Closed 1 Day April 27, 1973
Hospitals for Mentally Ill in Israel Reported in Critical State
By UZI BENZIMAN
Forty per cent of the men-
tal patients in Israel are hos-
pitalized in private hospitals.
It is estimated by the minis-
try of health that 75 per cent
of these hospitals should be
closed because of their sub-
standard conditions.
Most of the private men-
tal hospitals do not provide
even elementary services.
They have no psychiatric
consultants, no social work-
ers and no permanent physi-
cians. A single doctor serves
several hospitals, and at-
tends patients only when the
hospital management sum-
mons him.
Mental patients in these
private hospitals do not re-
ceive any modern treatment.
They are given their food,
their beds are made and
superficial medical care is
provided simply to maintain
their physical condition but
not to improve their mental
disturbances. A family con-
signing a relative to one in
fact aims just to remove the
poor patient from the home
and the community.
Families send patients to
private hospitals because the
public mental hospitals are
overcrowded. The public hos-
pitals — which belong to the
government or to the His-
tadrut's "General Sick Fund"
— are relatively advanced
medical centers. They offer
good facilities and modern
treatment. However, several
psychiatrists — who immi-
grated to Israel recently —
told me that even the public
" I can't let it spoil. "
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...
hospitals should be better
equipped and their methods
modernized.
Most of the private hospi-
tals are run for profit; only
a few are run by philanthrop-
id intent on helping people.
In 1962 a hospitalization
authority was established un-
der the health ministry. It
was empowered to devise
long-range plans on the en-
tire problem of hospitaliza-
tion. Two years later, the au-
thority submitted its report.
One of its main recommen-
dations was to give high pri-
ority to the hospitalization
of mental patients.
In time the hospitalization
authority ceased to function.
In 1967 the health ministry
renewed its activity but with
poor results. Again the au-
thority dealt with long-range
planning; again, it recom-
mended giving mental hos-
pitals the highest priority;
again the authority was para-
lyzed and its recommenda-
tions shelved. Since May 1969
it has not convened.
Recently, the health minis-
try itself issued a report
aiming at revolutionizing the
whole system. It recommend-
ed that the country be divid-
ed into 19 "treatment areas,"
with each area containing a
mental health community
center responsible for the
mental health of the local
population. The center would
be also responsible for build-
ing clinics, institutes for per-
iodic and long-term hospitali-
zation. Each center would
provide preventive treat-
ment at schools, factories, of-
fices, youth clubs, etc. The
report's major aim was to
reduce long-term hospitaliza-
tion to a minimum. The pro-
posal recommended that
mental patients should live
in the community wherever
possible. It was felt that with
modern methods only a small
minority of mental patients
need complete removal from
society. Should these propo-
sals be carried out, most of
the sub-standard private hos-
pitals will be eliminated.
`Liberated' Lands
vs. the 'Conquered'
Who do you think you're fooling?
Of course you can't let the
leftovers just sit there. After all, in
Europe, children are starving. And
food prices are so high, it would be
a crime — no, a sin — to waste it. But
come on, the food's not even cold
yet. A far cry from being spoiled.
Well, when even you don't
believe your corny excuses
anymore, try listening to some of
the floozies we've all used, at Weight
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an amateur.
You see, we understand how
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and frustrations. But most
WEIGHT WATCHERS
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of eating.
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Call us for the Weight Watchers
class in your neighborhood. After
all, we'd hate to see you spoil.
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
latest anecdote is about
Golda Meir polling the new
Soviet olim on their attitude
as to what Israel's policy
should be in respect of the
Arab territories taken in the
Six-Day War.
Responding to her query,
a recent Soviet oleh declares:
"We should not return the
liberated areas to our
enemies, but the occupied
territories have to be return-
ed to their rightful owners."
Puzzled by this response,
Golda asks how would he
differentiate between "liber-
ated" and "occupied" ter-
ritories. The oleh replied:
"The liberated territories
are Jerusalem, Gaza, the
S'inai, Judea, Shomron and
the Golan Heights. The oc-
cupied territories are Czecho-
slovakia, Hungary, Poland,
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,
the Ukraine, Georgia, White
Russia, etc."
The University of Michigan
Hospital Blood Bank serves
as a regional "reference lab-
oratory" having the facili-
ties and trained personnel
to identify and match rare
blood for patients. Such labs,
certified by the American
Association of Blood Banks,
assist all blood banks and
hosr" - in region.