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With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of increasing the number of
a dedicated COVID Intensive Care Unit intensive care beds at Soroka. It has created
was established in which more than 350 a situation in which the chronic lack of beds is
patients have been hospitalized so far and even more severe than it was previously.
more than 30 patients have been connected
to ECMO machines. The pandemic has posed The growth of the Negev’s population, the
professional and emotional challenges to the consistent increase in the number of intensive
unit’s medical staff members, who have been care referrals and emergencies, cerebral
under intense stress but have performed angiographies, complex oncological surgeries,
admirably in the face of the virus. accidents and serious injuries, the aging
population, and COVID-19 morbidity all add up
Without a doubt, the pandemic has underscored to the vital and immediate need for additional
the importance of intensive care units, intensive care beds.
intensified the shortage, and further illustrated
