JERUSALEM, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Israeli police will set up permanent police stations in all public hospitals following a recent wave of violence against medical staff in the country.

       The Israeli Ministry of Finance has approved the budget needed for placing police officers in all emergency rooms at a total of 19 million shekels (5.68 million U.S. dollars), the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

       The change is one of the demands made by the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), which represents about 95 percent of the doctors in the country.

       Earlier this month, the IMA went on a 24-hour warning strike after a serious incident took place at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Dozens of family members of a patient who died at the hospital attacked the medical staff and vandalized the place, local media reported.

       "Violence in hospitals cannot be tolerated," said Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman. "Recent incidents have proven that we can not allow medical staff to work without protection."