(Tablet) Hillel Kuttler - The arrangement at the Galilee Medical Center in the northern Israel town of Nahariya typifies the refitting of 37 existing wards throughout Israel, including in two psychiatric hospitals, with Covid-19 departments. For physicians and nurses at the Nahariya hospital, nearly all of their communication with patients occurs through a window, using an intercom. Patients are instructed in taking their own pulse, blood pressure, and temperature. If they can't manage those tasks or are in any distress, the medical professionals don their protective garb and enter the Red Zone. Meals are conveyed through slots that must be closed by the initiating person before the receiving person gains access. In a control room, staff members monitor every bed, 24 hours a day, on multiple screens of closed-circuit television. In designing its Covid-19 departments, Israel placed a high priority on protecting caregivers, said Avi Ben Zaken of the Ministry of Health. Israeli officials were alarmed at the number of medical professionals in China, South Korea, and Italy debilitated and even killed by the disease while delivering care, he said.
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