Coping with hospital patients in wartime

(JNS) — “The impacts in central Haifa are very close to the hospital. It feels like Russian roulette,” said Ahuva Tal, head nurse at Clalit Health Services’ Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, in an interview with JNS on Monday, a day before a two-week ceasefire paused 40 days of war against Iran.

Carmel Medical Center, which has a capacity of 500 beds, began evacuating some patients on Feb. 28, when Israel and the United States launched a joint attack against Iran. Some patients were transferred to Rambam Medical Center, also in Haifa, which has an underground compound, while others were moved to...