Medical workers protest long shifts, threaten to quit

• Author: MAARIV ONLINE
• Published date: 27 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Barbivai instead intends to offer an outline in which shifts will be shortened to only 22 hours with one single overlapping hour instead.

Barbivai responded to the criticism in an interview with Army Radio: "The interns are right, there is no argument. But the proposal of some of them talks about shortening the shifts in 10 hospitals first, leaving 75% of the hospitals with 26-hour shifts. I propose to set a realistic goal and descend gradually."

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In addition, over 1,500 residents, interns, and students have signed an ultimatum petition stating that if a 16 + 2 outline is not adopted, the residents intend to resign, the interns refuse to start a residency and the students refuse to start an internship.

Dr. Liran Nevat Golan, who...