"Carmel Hospital is a place of kindness and patience, a safe and open place, of empathy and balm"
"Safe space for the LGBT community" This is the title of the symposium and the special conference held at the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa. Ahuva Tal, Carmel's director of nursing, who organized and produced the conference, said "Carmel Hospital is a place of kindness and patience, a safe and open place of empathy and balm."
For 5 years, nurse Livi Shem Tov has been working with dedication and professionalism in the emergency room (emergency room) of the Carmel Medical Center. Livi is known for her special human touch and her ability to reassure and provide each patient and patient with accurate medical care and the feeling that they are in good hands.
Livy, who lives in a proud relationship with her partner and their two children, was part of the hospital team that participated in the special conference held at Carmel Hospital, for the benefit of getting to know the LGBT community and providing a safe space for the community at the hospital.
Livi informed me that only recently the first LGBT clinic in the north was opened, the "Bonan" clinic of the General Hospital in Haifa, and that there is a great need to introduce the issue to the hospitals as well, especially for the learning and understanding of the issue on the part of all the medical staff.
"We are not here to change anyone's opinion or belief, we are not judgmental of any religion - we are doing this purely to become professional with a certain community, so that when a girl with two mothers or two fathers comes to the clinic, the medical staff will know how to deal with it correctly," said Libby .
Later on in the conference, which was enriching and broadening horizons, fascinating lectures were given, including a lecture by Dr. Gal Wagner, director of the gay clinic in Tel Aviv, who told about the specific difficulties of the LGBT community, and after that, Amit Tzuk, who was born as a man, took the stage for a fascinating lecture And decided to go through the process and become a woman, and today she is happily married to a woman and is the mother of 5 children.
Dr. Olga Kort, director of the first LGBT clinic in the north (Bonan Clinic) and social worker Eitan Avnon, director of the "Beit HaKhilolot" in Haifa, also spoke.
Ahuva Tal, Carmel's director of nursing, worked to promote the issue and the production of the special event together with nurse Livi Shem Tov, attorney Nitzan Alon, Sapir Fachter Katz, a urology nurse, Dr. Galit Levanon from the children's department and Dr. Mona Harbush, a doctor from the Medical Department.
In the opening remarks for the event, Ahoova told and said:
"30 years ago my sister-in-law asked me to help her tell her mother that she was a lesbian, since then the State of Israel has come a long way and we are still commanded to give the community the exact answer so that they are not forced to turn to remote and unreliable healing places. We must be attentive to the needs of the community and most importantly - remember that they are already Not a 'community', they are part of the human, public and private landscape and we are here to learn and change past concepts."
The director of the hospital, Dr. Avi Goldberg, who participated in the event, said:
"A hospital is a place of kindness, a place where we are fully at the disposal of our patients, we are supposed to understand them, show empathy towards them and provide a balm for their hardships. The LGBT community has its own unique hardships, these are people who sometimes live in hiding and fear with physical and mental challenges are unique, and it is our duty as an open place, as a safe place and as a place of patience - to get to know them and be at their disposal in a full, non-judgmental, understanding and inclusive manner."
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