Times of Israel Blog Post by Richard S. Hirschhaut Sirens wailing, doctors and nurses wearing gas masks, an underground parking garage transformed into a surgery-ready hospital. What could have been scenes from a disaster movie was business as usual last month at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The backdrop was the annual Emergency Preparedness Drill,…
Israel REMARKABLE RAMBAM An underground hospital in Haifa is ready for anything By Linda Gradstein THE JERUSALEM REPORT JULY 23, 2018 IT LOOKS like any other upscale parking garage if a bit cleaner than most. But this parking garage can become an underground hospital that can hold more than 1,700 patients and is safe from…
The Scenario: Faced with the threat of missile attacks, Rambam Health Care Campus, Northern Israel’s largest hospital will have to move underground. Care Campus with the scenario of a missile attack on the Haifa area, forcing the only referral hospital in the north to transfer operations to the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This…
