Interns demonstrated and demand to shorten the shifts at the hospitals and threaten to resign

A struggle of more than a decade to shorten interns' shifts has reached a boiling point in recent days: more than 1,300 interns, and medical students are threatening to resign immediately - if the shifts are not shortened from 26 hours to 18 hours, as they claim promised by the health ministries And the Treasury.
On Saturday evening, interns demonstrated in front of the home of Economy Minister Orna Barbibai. Among the shouts heard at the demonstration: "The shift is not over, Orna I resign", and "16 or war".
Interns fear that the government intends to shorten the shifts to only 21 or 22 hours, and may even be content with allocating hours of sleep during the shifts, instead of actually shortening it.
On the other hand, the surgeons 'associations and orthopedists have sent an explicit threat, according to which if the shifts are indeed shortened to 18 hours, they will be required to extend the internship for an entire year, and will work on other levels to worsen the interns' conditions. For example, they threatened to reduce the number of certification exams from time to time once a year and under more difficult study conditions, and would recommend stopping the procedure where executives perform shifts instead of interns.
The chairmen of the surgical associations are protesting that the government is ignoring the conclusions of the committee responsible for shortening the shifts of the Medical Association, and is trying to reach a new outline. They warn that "in the surgical professions, an uncoordinated move will impair the internship, the training of the young surgeons and their range of skills at the end of the internship. There is no doubt in our hearts that the unilateral change ".
The background to the growing boiling in the health care system is the approaching date of the expiration of the permit, which currently allows the employment of interns on 26-hour shifts in a row, in contrast to other workers in the economy.