The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) has drafted medical guidelines which will permit the families of corona victims to personally part with dying relatives in person and offer them final moments of grace. The hospital will provide first-degree family members with full protective clothing so that they can be present beside their love ones during their final moments.
Professor Roni Gamzu, CEO of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov): "the stories of patients dying alone are horrifying to me as a human being and as a manager, and we cannot allow such things to happen in our medical system. The health system has been inflexible with regard to this matter, so we at Ichilov have formulated guidelines, effective immediately, which will allow family members, wearing full protective gear supplied by the hospital, to say farewell to their loved ones. This is our moral duty as medical staff and as human beings. No one shall be allowed to die alone in Ichilov – it will no longer happen – and I believe that the rest of the world will follow our example, as it should."
