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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Tipat Halav

Illustrative: A baby seen at a 'Tipat Chalav' family health center on March 5, 2019. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
April 12, 2020, 10:40 pm
Baby clinics must resume full service to avoid health time bomb — health workers
Tipat Halav centers are essential for ensuring babies stay healthy and must reopen later this week, National Council for Community Health tells Health Ministry
By Nathan Jeffay
The measles virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)
November 11, 2019, 6:39 am
Ill-prepared Israeli health system struggles to keep measles at bay
Israel is the 6th-most measles-stricken country and the only developed nation in World Health Organization’s ‘blacklist’. A booming birthrate and stratified society provide clues
By Tani Goldstein
President Shimon Peres (right), watches as a medical worker administers a dose of polio vaccine to a young boy at a clinic in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, August 21, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
August 27, 2013, 10:52 am
Polio found in the north
Samples taken in Wadi Ara before commencement of nationwide vaccination campaign reveal traces of virus
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Take two drops and call me in the morning. An Israeli child receives the oral vaccination against polio in Beersheba in August 2013. (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/FLASH90)
August 18, 2013, 2:53 am
30,000 vaccinated against polio as national campaign kicks off
Israel facing a ‘wild’ virus that’s passing from person to person, Health Ministry says, calling danger ‘real and imminent’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A resident of the southern Bedouin village of Rahat receives a polio immunization on June 4, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 19, 2013, 5:54 am
Polio scare gets parents rushing to immunize their kids
Health Ministry officials begin making calls and visiting homes to ensure all children under the age of six get inoculated
By ToI Staff
A resident of the southern Bedouin village of Rahat receives a polio immunization on June 4, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 18, 2013, 11:28 am
Health Ministry to immunize children against polio
For the third time this year, traces of virus found in Negev sewage systems; state to vaccinate all kids under six
By Asher Zeiger
Orel Ben Ari, left, the head of the Tel Aviv Refugee Clinic (the Public Clinic), pictured with a young Eritrean man who had fled to Israel after sustaining several physical and emotional traumas in Egypt, including the loss of his hand, before being granted asylum in Europe. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)
February 15, 2013, 12:22 pm
Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government
State funding expands an idealist’s healthcare project that is partly humanitarian, promises to stem overcrowding in hospitals, can help Israel’s image, and will probably save money
By Michal Shmulovich
Striking nurses march at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, on December 3, 2012 (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
December 4, 2012, 11:43 pm
Second day of nurses’ strike ends with no resolution
Negotiations to continue Wednesday in effort to end walkout over manpower crisis and pay issues
By Gabe Fisher
Striking nurses march at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, on December 3, 2012 (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
December 4, 2012, 8:28 am
Clalit nurses’ strike enters its second day
Negotiations continue in effort to end walkout over manpower crisis and pay issues
By Gabe Fisher
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