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Itongadol.- Nurses and administrative employees of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s (HMO) two Jerusalem hospitals joined on Monday extensive demonstrations by medical workers – who have been on a reduced Shabbat schedule – calling for the payment in full of January salaries.
More than 1,000 demonstrators from the Ein Kerem andMount Scopus branches were marching toward the Knessetwhere they were scheduled to hold more protests of theTreasury\’s backing to freeze all HMO\’s financial obligations ahead of a ruling at the Jerusalem District Court to uphold the move.
Hospital workers end partial labor stoppage in solidarity with cash-strapped Hadassah
Maternity ward, intensive and emergency care unit staffers have continued operation as normal despite the protests, which started last Tuesday, and the labor stoppage by most hospital employees..
Doctors in hospitals across the country were set to hold worker\’s sanctions from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday in solidarity with the Hadassah workers.
Without full paychecks entering the banks, the two hospitals will, until further notice, begin to run on an emergency schedule, with fewer services than a Shabbat schedule and only lifesaving and urgent care, including delivery rooms, being provided.
The immediate spark for sanctions was news that management, with Treasury backing, was going to the Jerusalem District Court to freeze all of HMO’s financial obligations and put an external trustee, lawyer Lipa Meir, in charge along with director- general Avigdor Kaplan