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14-01-20 #OccupyTLV: Cumulative Health data submitted to

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===14-01-20 #OccupyTLV: 2013 annual cumulative health data submitted to
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OccupyTLV, Jan 20 - Consistent and intentional actions by the Tel-Aviv

Municipality have turned the OccupyTLV camp into a health hazard, where
morbidity and hospitalizations, and the types of morbidity are unreasonable
from public health perspective.
The camp uses non-potable water for drinking, cooking, washing for a
number of months, after the Municipality disconnected the potable
water source.
The Municipality built a substandard toilet and water source with no
drainage to sewage creating standing sewage water puddles.
The Municipality built two street persons shelters that fail to meet any
reasonable and/or legal standard.
Conduct of Tel Aviv Municipality in the camp should be deemed serious
violation of Human Rights.
Moreover, one should view the camp as the face of things to come, reflecting
the attitude of the authorities and anticipated outcomes when tent
neighborhoods will pop up in cities across Israel with deteriorating socioeconomic conditions..
Cumulative health data for 2013
In a camp of about 100 persons, mostly stable residents:
1) One middle-aged man passed away in the night (probably heart attack)
2) Another middle-aged man was hospitalized in intensive care unit for a long
period.
3) A man in his 20s was hospitalized for overdose.

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4) At least half a dozen persons were hospitalized for a short time or a few
days for infections.
5) Two cases of forced psychiatric confinement, one should be deemed in
violation of Human Rights.
6) 3-4 cases of long term imprisonment (to be distinguished from short
)detention
Footnote on hospitalizations due to infections:
Most of the cases originated in skin infections, which turned systemic. There
is room to suspect that we experienced here last summer a small epidemic of
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The infections are also
correlated with amphetamine use and the deplorable sanitation situation
probably contributed as well.

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