Hospital

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Proposal considered for Israel’s largest hospital to be built in Beersheva
December 3, 2019
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.
Pipes Bridge, Beersheva, Israel. Credit: Alexey Goral via Wikimedia Commons.
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Israel denies separating Gazan girl from her parents while hospitalized for cancer
May 20, 2019
Israel’s COGAT claims that 5-year-old Aisha a-Lulu's parents refused to accompany her from Gaza to Jerusalem for cancer treatments.
A tweet by Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi blasts Israel for allegedly forcing a Gaza girl to die in a Jerusalem hospital without her parents. Israel adamantly denied the accusation, saying the girl's parents refused to enter Israel with her. Source: Twitter.
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PA halts patient referrals to Israeli hospitals due to tax issues with Israel
April 2, 2019
An estimated 50,000 Palestinian Authority residents are sent to Israeli hospitals every year, primarily for specific treatments that Palestinian hospitals do not provide.
Sojud, 16, recovers with her mother by her side after going through a cardiac catheterization at the Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon on April 11, 2018. The Palestinian girl, from the West Bank city of Nablus, was suffering from heart problems, and with the financial and logistical support of the Israeli nonprofit NGO Save a Child's Heart was able to receive this life-saving procedure in an Israeli hospital. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
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Three Israeli hospitals break newborn birth records in July
August 12, 2018
According to statistics taken in 2016, Israel has a fertility rate of 3.11 children per mother—the highest in the developed world.
File photo: Jewish religious women do their national service at the maternity department at a hospital in Jerusalem on Oct. 28, 2010. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.
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Nurses across Israel to strike in protest of violence against hospital, medical workers
August 6, 2018
“It is inconceivable that the Israeli government stands by as the health system becomes a war zone—and the nurses, medical teams and health-care personnel serve as a punching bag for displeased patients,” said Ilana Cohen, chair of the National Association of Nurses in Israel.
File photo: Israeli nurses from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem protest against recent attacks in the hospital, March 11, 2012. Photo by Yonatan Sindel /Flash90.
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