Rambam hospital suffers massive power failure; no patients affected

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, the only level 1 trauma center and tertiary care hospital in Israel’s north, experiences an extensive power outage in the early morning hours. Some equipment may have been damaged, but no patients were affected.

A hospital spokesperson tells The Times of Israel that the incident was due to an infrastructure failure and not a cyberattack. The power outage occurs as Rambam is on high alert as fighting intensifies with Hezbollah and other terror groups along the northern border.

Shortly after 2 a.m., the main electrical line from the Israel Electric Corporation feeding the hospital stopped working properly. The medical center’s generators kicked in immediately and logistics administrators and hospital electricians arrived to ascertain that all critical systems were online and that immediate backup systems were working.

Problems were identified in the functioning of some equipment in specific areas of the hospital and are being addressed. Hospital administrators are going from department to department to check all sensitive equipment.

The Health Ministry has been notified and will receive a full report in due course.