When the sirens sound - Not Everyone Can Run
For fifty years, Laniado Hospital has stood on the front line of saving lives in Israel.
A few weeks ago we marked the 32nd Yahrtzeit of the Klausenberger Rebbe zt"l, founder of Laniado Hospital. We also reflected on a remarkable milestone: 50 years since the first baby was born at Laniado.
Having lost his wife, eleven children and most of his followers in the Holocaust, the Rebbe dedicated his life to rebuilding what had been destroyed. When the first baby was born at Laniado in June 1976, he described it as his revenge against the Nazis.
Not through hatred, not through vengeance, but through life.
Today, the hospital he built serves more than 500,000 residents across Israel's Sharon region, but the reality facing Israeli hospitals has changed.
When air raid sirens sound, patients in the existing Emergency Department who can walk are moved to protected areas. But not everyone can.
The critically injured, patients on ventilators, those undergoing emergency treatment and the doctors and nurses caring for them. They stay because they have no choice.
The recent missile strike on Soroka Medical Centre demonstrated a reality every Israeli hospital now faces: hospitals themselves have become targets.
That is why Laniado is building a new Sheltered Emergency Centre.
Expected to treat up to 180,000 emergency attendances each year, including 18,000 severe cases and more than 5,000 major trauma and critical emergencies, it will provide protected emergency care when it is needed most.
At the heart of the new Centre will be the Trauma Wing, the place where the most seriously injured and critically ill patients will receive life-saving treatment when every second counts.
The Rebbe built Laniado Hospital to save lives.
Today, we are helping build the next chapter of that vision.
Because when the sirens sound, not everyone can run.
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