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Pediatric The addition of two pediatric
trauma bays will increase our
Trauma ability to provide timely care to the
ever-increasing number of children
Bays who arrive at the Emergency
Department as trauma victims and
need to be treated immediately.
Background
The Emergency Department (ED) and Trauma The Negev’s population is very young, with an
Unit, which treat hundreds of thousands of average age of 28. Soroka serves a population
patients every year, face unique challenges in of more than 400,000 children in the Negev
light of the hospital’s location. Their teams have as the only tertiary trauma center. Children
vast knowledge, a great deal of experience, injuries (domestic, road, public space etc.) are
and outstanding professional expertise in common, and death rates due to such injuries
providing urgent medical care, and they invest is the highest in the country.
tremendous effort and resources in providing
accurate diagnoses and optimal treatments
and saving lives.
