21.12.2011                      25.Kislev. 5772                       Channuka 1

Gesundheitssystem:

Arabs underrepresented in public health sector

Only 9.5% of public medical staff,  0.25% of management are Arabs, despite comprising 20% of population.

Only 9.5 percent of medical personnel working in government institutions are Arabs, with only 0.25% in management positions, even though they constitute 20% of the Israeli population, according to MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List- Ta’al), head of a Knesset investigative committee on the subject.
In actual numbers, there are just 2,729 Arabs among 28,724 medical workers….