00:02During times of war, essential services do need to be maintained, particularly the health
00:07care system.
00:08We're here at this hospital just north of Tel Aviv and we're about to go inside and
00:12then underground.
00:14This is the subterranean part of the Maya Medical Centre, with patients moved down here
00:18as soon as the first emergency warnings were issued by Israeli authorities on Saturday morning.
00:23We have the ability to treat actually all medical cases over there, whether it's ICU patients
00:34or ventilated patients or regular internal medicine patients.
00:40We are now here in the neonatal unit and we also have a functional in full capacity
00:54operating rooms.
00:55In around eight hours, almost all of the vulnerable patients had been shifted from their wards
01:00above ground, among them premature babies.
01:03Staff are hoping to give a fighting chance to survive.
01:06While we were inside, a reminder of why we were there.
01:09We've just got an alert coming through.
01:13I mean, that really goes to the point, doesn't it, that we're currently in a facility like
01:18this, everyone who is down here is hearing that alert, but they're not actually having
01:21to rush off to a secure place.
01:25That is absolutely correct.
01:27What we're seeing now is nice to know, but I don't need to do anything.
01:31Because I'm in a safe place, my loved ones are in a safe place and I can carry on doing
01:36what I'm doing.
01:37Above ground, there are also fortified areas designed to withstand attacks, including delivery
01:42rooms for pregnant mothers.
01:44Because you can't tell the baby to wait.
01:46We can't tell them to wait.
01:48They just decide when they come and they come.
01:50This facility has been operational since 2024, but planning began well before then.
01:55Basically started back in COVID when we started to understand, just like in the rest of the
02:00world, that we have to have a place that is safe for whatever happens.
02:05Clearly this is a very advanced facility.
02:08It's not necessarily something you'd see replicated right across this region, but the staff here
02:13are hoping, as much as they are prepared for the worst, that they don't really have to
02:16put this to too much use and that this conflict comes to an end very soon.
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