Hospital: Soldier seriously wounded in Hezbollah attack now stable after surgery

The soldier who suffered a serious head injury during a major rocket and missile attack on a military base near Safed yesterday is in stable condition after undergoing surgery overnight at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

The reservist, from the Computer Service Directorate, was transferred to Rambam from Ziv Medical Center in Safed when it was determined that he would need neurosurgery as part of his treatment.

According to Dr. Roy Ilan, deputy director of Rambam’s general ICU unit, the soldier also suffered an abdominal wound. He was operated on by neurosurgical and general surgery teams. He is now being cared for in the intensive care unit. The doctors have taken him out of the induced coma they had put him in and he is now awake and breathing on his own.

“He appears to be in stable condition in all regards. He will have a long recovery, but we think he is moving in the right direction and we are very pleased,” Ilan says.