The Knesset Health Committee initiated monitoring of food prices in hospital shops after learning that a cup costs an average of NIS 19. Committee chairman declared that “hospital outpatients and visitors are a captive audience that should not be robbed for basic products such as coffee and a bottle of water. The franchisee can profit from the prices of the luxury products instead.
He complained during the meeting about the conduct of the Economics Ministry that claimed that controlling such prices was the responsibility of the Consumer Protection Authority. He demanded that within a month, the Economics Ministry send to the Health Committee its detailed position regarding the supervision of food products in hospitals including whether was a need for such supervision, on which products and in what way they can be monitored. In addition, he asked the Health Ministry to conduct a comprehensive inspection of all hospitals to determine which food products among the products sold in the hospital should be designated as price controlled.
After this effort has results, the ministry must advise the hospitals to state in the terms of the tender that there will be a number of basic food products that will be marketed at a fixed and reduced price to the those who come to the hospitals. Mashriki praised the supervision carried out by in the hospitals they own and noted that the supervision did not harm the hospitals’ ability to sign contract with franchisees. Coffee, sandwiches, past.