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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1992
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Strike Provoked
By Privatization
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel's
public health services were
virtually paralyzed last
weekend by a one-day strike
called to protest a govern-
ment order privatizing six
government hospitals.
The job action, which shut
down 44 government
hospitals and 1,200 Kupat
Holim clinics run by the
Histadrut labor federation,
was taken by some 25,000
nurses, laboratory techni-
cians, paramedics and sup-
port personnel, who claim
their futures have been
placed in jeopardy by the
move.
But the strike did not en-
joy the support of physicians,
many of whom stand to
benefit if public service
hospitals become semi- in-
dependent corporations.
Despite the overwhelming
shutdown, services con-
tinued in critical hospital
departments, such as ma-
ternity wards, cancer wards
and dialysis units.
The strikers said they
were not fully consulted by
Health Minister Ehud
Olmert before the privatiza-
tion order went into effect
Jan. 1.
Mr. Olmert, rebutting the
charge, said he had been
discussing the plans with
the health care workers and
others for more than a year.
He said the strikers had fail-
ed to attend many crucial
meetings about the
privatization.
The Labor-dominated
Histadrut sees the Health
Ministry move as an attempt
by the Likud health minister
to break Kupat Holim's
power and replace it with a
general public health
system.
Histadrut announced that
unless Mr. Olmert agrees to
change the plans to incor-
porate the six government
hospitals, it will call a gen-
eral strike of all industries
"at a time to be deter-
mined."
Not all the strikers are
opposed in principle to the
idea of privatization. But
they want to ensure their
pensions and working condi-
tions within the future in-
dependent health centers.
Doctors stand to benefit,
because under the new
system, the individual
managements of the six
hospitals concerned would
be able to offer more money
to physicians who work se-
cond and third shifts.
The government has been
opposed to paying for ex-
tended schedules. In-
stituting them would cut
down the substantial
waiting periods for elective
surgery, which can take
more than a year.
Opponents of hospital in-
corporation fear the new
system will harm the public
health infrastructure and
encourage establishment of
a "health for the rich"
system, with more affluent
patients paying extra for
"black market" or "under
the counter" treatment or
operations at public
facilities.
Some public health experts
are not opposed to incorpora-
tion as such but feel that in-
dividual hospitals will be too
small to operate efficiently.
They have proposed that
hospital services as a whole
be peeled away from
government control and in-
corporated into an overall
hospital authority, akin to
Bezek Telephone or the port
and railroad authorities.
Experts are pointing out
that Israel has built a world
reputation for medical and
health innovations, a result
of research and development
that has been enabled only
by the existing large-scale
system. They say that in-
dividual privately run
hospitals will not be able to
invest in such research,
since they will be watching
their budgets closely.
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Disaster
Rehearsal
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Ben-
Gurion Airport, Israel's
gateway, rehearsed for
disaster last week with a
scenario that could have
been a Hollywood script.
International civil avia-
tion regulations require air-
ports to hold emergency
drills every two years. Ben-
Gurion Airport complied
with the largest simulated
catastrophe it has ever stag-
ed.
Four major hospitals in
central Israel were on
standby to receive
"casualties" from an imag-
inary plane crash. The
public was alerted not to be
alarmed by clouds of black
fumes over the airport from
the scores of ambulances,
fire engines and other
vehicles taking part in the
simulation.
The script was devised to
test Ben-Gurion's ability to
cope with disaster.
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