Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

Tel Aviv Hospital Bars Africans From Visiting

The director of Ichilov Medical Center in Tel Aviv announced Monday that entry to the hospital will be denied to African migrants, unless they are in need of medical attention or hospitalization.

Ichilov director Gabi Barbash issued the new instructions on Monday, in which migrant workers and refugees will only be granted access if they are in need of hospitalization or to be examined in the emergency room.

Also, Husbands of women in labor or parents of children that are hospitalized will be granted entry as long as they are wearing identification tags. Moreover, the hospital decided that all migrant workers and refugees entering the hospital, including those who are admitted for medical care, must get a chest X-ray in order to rule out the possibility that they are carrying tuberculosis.

Ichilov’s director also instructed to isolate migrants who are patients in the maternity ward in a separate space.

Children of migrants hospitalized in Dana Children’s Hospital in Ichilov Medical Center Tel Aviv will also be separated from Israeli children in a special ward, according to the instructions. According to Barbash, the hospital will consider the situation and “take extra steps in order to minimize the health risks to our patients and staff.”

For more, go to Haaretz.com

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.