Jerusalem – An Israeli health official says Israel’s hospitals will stop treating Syrian patients in non-emergency cases beginning next week unless the Israeli government fully reimburses the hospitals for years of medical treatments to those wounded in the Syrian civil war.
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The Health Ministry says that since 2013, four Israeli hospitals have treated a total of 2,278 Syrians. It says many of them had war wounds requiring significant surgery.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in December that he wanted to expand medical assistance to wounded Syrians.
But Orly Weinstein, who heads the Health Ministry’s division of government medical centers, told the prime minister’s office Sunday that the Israeli government has only partially reimbursed hospitals for the treatments and that the hospitals can no longer bear the financial burden.
I have waited 5 months for an MRI & the only way I got the appointment is because nobody wanted Purim morning. My friend, who is totally disabled, has waited 2 months for an “emergency” MRI. I can’t get my prescription meds because there aren’t any the country… but TEVA makes them here in Israel, then exports them.
AND NOW I SHOULD PAY THROUGH MY TAXES TO TREAT THESE PEOPLE?
Let the UN fund it. This is disgusting.
Maybe the money going to Gaza via world governments and then into the tunnels costing $10m per tunnel, can instead go to actually do some good and go towards treating their fellow Muslims.