MEDICINE IN ISRAEL

Let us start from statistics. In the beginning of 2009 the World Health Organization published the regular report on life span in different countries of the world.

According to the provided data, Israel takes one of the first places as concerned both: males and females.

Average Israeli female has every chance to live till 82 years, while Israeli male – till 79 years. The said showings are significantly higher than majority of developed European and American countries has.

Death rate among newborns in Israel is 3 kids per thousand (in Europe this rate is three times more: 10 per thousand; in Russia: 17 per thousand). Israel boasts the level of infectious diseases that is less than in Europe. The figures can be provided for ever and ever…

And all above is not conditioned by climate and other showings being similar with the other countries, in particular Middle East. Appropriate living standard and life span in our little country are achieved firstly due to the developed medicine being still in the process of continuous development.

The Israeli healthcare system is considered to be one of the most advanced worldwide. 8.3 % of Israeli GNP is allocated just to the medicine. The patient is protected by numerous governmental laws that make him the center of remedial process.

The Israeli clinics and hospitals are provided with the up-to-date medical equipment. Laboratories available in every Israeli hospital centers provide everyday findings for treatment of complicated diseases. Employed medical staff of any level, from nurses to qualified physicians, is known to have appropriate long and complicated education and training. Only specialists having long standing length of service and being thoroughly selected are admitted to employment in the hospitals. All above makes the Israeli healthcare system as competitive, while the Israeli medical practitioners – as the most required specialists even in the most developed countries in the world.

Israel is recognized to be the leader in the field of complicated chronic diseases treatment. Successful surgeries related to liver, renal and abdominal salivary gland transplantation, 40% of which have been done because of the vital necessity – provide Israel with the standard that only several advanced hospitals in the world could meet.