Dozens of medical residents withdrew their letters of resignation on Wednesday, two days after Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz proposed a new plan to cut their shifts short from 26 to 18 hours over the next four years.
Representatives of the residents’ union Mirsham are scheduled to meet with Horowitz in the afternoon and are expected to declare the end of the protests after.
Residents, students and interns have taken to the streets for weeks to demand better working hours.
According to the plan, the first phase will start on March 31, 2022, in 10 hospitals in the periphery.
By November 30, 2022, shifts will be shortened in the internal- and emergency-medicine departments in two hospitals in the center of the country.
Doctors demonstrate at a protest of resident doctors demanding more personnel in the hospital and that 26-hour shifts be shortened. (credit: ELAD GUTTMAN)
By March 30, 2023, the outline will apply to the same departments in all hospitals nationwide. A further expansion, which will be decided upon at a later stage, will be implemented by November 30, 2023.
By 2025, all residents, interns and students in Israel will work 18-hour shifts, Horowitz said.
A previous outline proposed by the Health Ministry did not say when shifts would be shortened in hospitals in central Israel. That proposal was rejected by the residents as not detailed enough.
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