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Israeli hospital takes patients underground as Iran crisis deepens

At Sheba medical center, Israel's biggest hospital, staff said they took a step forward and decided to move all their wards, including 2000 beds, to the underground parking lot located beneath the hospital. The underground parking lot was converted overnight into a vast complex complete with operating and delivery rooms, they said. Located near Tel Aviv, Sheba's underground hospital also accommodates an emergency department, as well as neurological and neurosurgery units, said Dr. Yoel Har Even, VP Sheba Global. Har Even said the relocation was driven by concerns over the destructive power of incoming missiles.

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Transcript
00:00Everyone, ladies!
00:26So nothing was here yesterday.
00:30Yesterday, around 8 a.m., when we got the alarms that things started,
00:35all the people from the division came to help,
00:38and construction from Sheba Medical Center created this amazing place
00:43in order for patients to deliver safely underground.
00:51This is kind of unusual.
00:53We're currently in the parking lot of Sheba Medical Center.
00:59This was a normal parking lot, and now it's labor and delivery rooms.
01:06We have ten labor and delivery rooms,
01:09including three labor and delivery rooms for induction
01:12and an OR for cesarean deliveries.
01:23It's a little bit abnormal, okay? It's not our usual space,
01:26but we created a space that's totally safe for the patients.
01:30We have everything that we had upstairs.
01:32We now have downstairs, including for emergency cesarean delivery,
01:37including all the equipment for labor and delivery.
01:39So we feel safe working here right now,
01:42and the most important part is that our patients feel safe coming now.
01:46You can see to my right side is the emergency department that we moved here yesterday afternoon,
01:53and all emergency cases have been treated here to my right side.
01:58In the other side, in the white tent, you can see here two departments.
02:03One is the neurological department, and the other one is the neurosurgery department.
02:08Both of them with 52 patients move here this morning to a place in a shelter and safe environment.
02:37We understand that we are in a different story,
02:41because this missile can carry up till 1,000 kilos of explosives,
02:47and there is no building that can take this amount of explosion.
02:52Therefore, the decision we made to bring all patients,
02:56which mean 2,000 beds that Sheba has underground to a safe and sheltered place.
03:03One of the places that we trace and bring to be a place that we can accommodate patients is here.
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