Haifa readies world's largest underground hospital

(JNS) — HAIFA—The rows of hospital beds with adjacent oxygen units line the underground parking lot.

Four operating rooms, a maternity ward and a dialysis center are among the facilities that Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus, aka Rambam Medical Center, has set up three levels down in its parking garage.

The largest hospital in northern Israel has created the biggest underground hospital in the world, and is gearing up for what could be an all-out war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The three-floor, $140 million Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital was constructed following the Se...