Israeli hospitals across the country are running on heightened alert amid threats of looming attacks by Iran and its regional proxies.
Israeli Health Minister Uriel Buso held a series of emergency medical readiness assessments with hospital directors and health officials last week. Among the topics discussed were emergency preparedness, cyber defense, mental healthcare and ways to rapidly raise readiness levels.
He noted that the healthcare system in Israel has been operating in emergency mode since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, triggering a war now entering its eleventh month and threatening to expand.
Last week, Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service also held a three-day drill in northern Israel that simulated a missile strike on a civilian residential building.
