Directors at Ziv Hospital in Safed and Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya stockpile for worst-case scenarios while coordinating responses with Magen David Adom.
NAHARIYA — With Hezbollah firing rockets and drones into Israel almost every day since October 8, medical personnel at the two hospitals closest to Israel’s northern border already sense what it’s like to be under siege.
MDA key after ‘man-made earthquake’ of Oct. 7
Both hospital directors coordinate with Magen David Adom (MDA) staff on “worst-case scenarios,” said MDA chief of staff Uri Shacham.
If the Galilee region is attacked and hospitals become “separate islands,” Shacham said, MDA will utilize its fleet of about 600 medicycles — medically equipped motorcycles and motor scooters — to deliver blood from MDA’s blood vault, which is protected against chemical, missile, and cyber attacks, to deliver it to northern hospitals.
Shacham said that MDA understood that “every 100 or 150 years, there’s an earthquake,” and the organization had been preparing for that possibility.
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