Soroka Medical Center
From heroic efforts to systemic strains, analyzing the aftermath of the country’s most significant medical emergency to date.
Elma Avraham, who has complex health issues, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Nahal Oz by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Peres Medical Center is expected to open in 2028 with 600 beds, reducing the burden on Soroka.
Amina Alhasoni, 7, was asleep in her bedroom when a fragment of an Iranian missile hit her home, leaving her with a serious head wound.
The Beersheva medical center is saving the life of a premature baby born to the niece of Ismail Haniyeh.
Regev requires surgery for a gunshot wound sustained during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack; her brother Itai is still being held captive in Gaza.
The terrorist, a resident of the Bedouin town of Houra, ran over a cyclist before leaving his vehicle and started to slash at civilians near the Big shopping center in southern Israel.
In Israeli first, doctors separate twins with conjoined skulls
The 12-hour operation comprised 50 staff members from a variety of fields and involved months of preparation.
Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli was shot in the head at close range on Aug. 21, and spent the last nine days fighting for his life at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva.
“An ultrasound is not different to sonars and radars. Hence, our technology is highly suitable for analyzing these signals,” Israel Lupa, Elta’s executive vice president says.
Proposal considered for Israel’s largest hospital to be built in Beersheva
The new potential hospital will have about 1,900 beds—1,000 of which will be for general medicine, while the remaining beds will be for geriatric care and a mental-health center.
New emergency department, trauma center in works at Soroka Medical Center
A capital fundraising campaign undertaken by UJA-Federation of New York for the Beersheva-based medical center has raised $6 million so far, matched by Israel’s Clalit Health Services for a total of $12 million.
