Assuta Hospital’s Underground Facility Deployed by Israel Amid Threats.
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Israel has deployed another underground hospital amid Iran missile threats. Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv’s Ramat HaHayal just opened a 200-bed subterranean facility, completed in two months with medical gases, electricity, and communications infrastructure. It absorbs overflow from unprotected public hospitals during barrages, building on fortified operating rooms used in recent operations like Rising Lion.
This mirrors the larger underground complex under Ichilov (Sourasky) Medical Center—4,000 sqm across four levels, 65m deep, treating 1,500 patients with 400 ICU beds and 11-day self-sufficiency. Both ensure care continuity when surface hospitals close.
The Head of the Medical Division at Assuta Medical Centers, Dr. Shani Brosh emphasised,
In the past month or two, there has been very intensive activity. An agreement was signed, a contracting company was appointed, and infrastructure for medical gases, electricity, and communications was built to allow a move to underground complexes on the day of an order. Today, the infrastructure is in place and can accommodate about 200 hospitalized patients on behalf of other hospitals that do not have fortification.
Dr. Shani Brosh
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