Health Minister Victor Shemtov announced in the Knesset yesterday that a compulsory national health-insurance plan was being worked out and that it would soon be submitted to the parliament for approval. The Mapam official said the plan would operate under the existing sick-funds and would have a far-reaching effect on the populace. He announced also that a mental health center would be opened soon in Jaffa and that it would accept patients on a daytime basis–that is, they would return home each evening. The new center, he said, would ease the strain on the country’s over-burdened mental institutions and make a major contribution toward the rehabilitation of the mentally ill.
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