Shas calls for emergency Knesset parley on hospital overcrowding
Meretz protesters say government funding must go to "the sick and not the settlements"; hospital occupancy rate actually lower than in previous winters.
An amputee patient with MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is pictured during surgery to clean his wound, in the operating theatre of the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (UKB) hospital in Berlin February 29, 2008(photo credit: REUTERS)ByLAHAV HARKOV, JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH