Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya in northern Israel moves its inpatient wards and critical care units to its fortified underground facility for the first time since the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
The move is made in accordance with directives from the Health Ministry and the IDF Homefront Command.
The critical services transferred include the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), pediatric department, pediatric surgical department, internal medicine, and orthopedics.
“The process of moving the departments to the underground facility is a requirement, as the safety of our patients and staff is always of utmost priority. We will continue to be prepared for any occurrence, as extreme as it may be,” said the medical center’s director-general Prof. Masad Barhoum in a statement.
Also today, premature babies being treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan were transferred to the hospital’s underground protected area this morning, as were the pediatric intensive care units.
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