As the security situation continues, Laniado Hospital has implemented a comprehensive emergency reorganisation plan to ensure that lifesaving medical care can continue safely under threat conditions.

Departments across the hospital have been relocated, consolidated, and in many cases moved into protected and fortified areas, allowing patients to continue receiving treatment while preparing for potential mass casualty events across the Sharon region.

Departments Operating in Protected and Reorganised Locations;

Internal Medicine A is currently operating within the Orthopaedics Department, where staff are managing all ventilated patients from the Internal Medicine wing.

Internal Medicine B has been relocated to the Surgery Department, while specialised isolation patients are being treated in the Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit.

Internal Medicine C, including infectious disease patients, is now operating in a fortified protected complex beneath the Orthopaedics Department, one of the hospital’s key sheltered treatment areas.

The General Intensive Care Unit continues to operate within its department, with additional capacity established in a protected room within the Emergency Department, ensuring critically ill patients can continue to receive care even during emergencies.

Despite the challenging conditions, Laniado’s core emergency and critical care services remain fully operational.

The Adult Emergency Department continues to receive patients, while Paediatrics and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit remain active. The Paediatric Emergency Department also continues to operate.

Cardiology and the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit continue to function within their departments, ensuring uninterrupted cardiac care.

The Surgery and Orthopaedics Departments remain active and ready to respond to urgent cases.

Even under emergency conditions, maternity and specialist services continue, ensuring safe care for mothers and babies.

Delivery rooms remain fully operational, and the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Emergency Unit continues to receive patients.

Maternity wards have been consolidated to improve safety:

• Maternity A is operating within Maternity B
• Maternity B is operating within Maternity C
• The High-Risk Pregnancy Unit remains in Maternity B

The Haematology and Oncology Department has been relocated to a protected area adjacent to the Dialysis Unit on Level -1, providing greater protection for vulnerable patients undergoing treatment.

This extensive reorganisation demonstrates both the dedication of Laniado’s staff and the extraordinary measures required to keep a major hospital functioning during wartime conditions.

Patients have been moved between departments, wards have been consolidated, and protected spaces have been converted into temporary treatment areas. These measures allow lifesaving care to continue but they are improvised solutions, not permanent ones.

Underground storage areas, protected rooms and temporary wards were never designed to function as a full emergency hospital.

When a major emergency affects the Sharon region, home to hundreds of thousands of residents who rely on Laniado as their primary trauma hospital, the current facilities simply cannot provide the level of protection and capacity required.

The experience of recent days has made one thing unmistakably clear:

Laniado urgently needs a fully protected, purpose-built Emergency Department.

The planned Sheltered Emergency Unit, scheduled for completion in 2029, will provide a permanent fortified medical facility where doctors and nurses can continue treating patients safely even during missile attacks or mass casualty emergencies.

Instead of relocating patients between departments and improvised protected areas, the new unit will allow all emergency care to take place in one fully protected underground facility designed specifically for crisis conditions.

Recent events have shown that this project is not a future ambition  it is an urgent necessity.