New IDF field hospital to treat 250 patients per day
In times of war or shutdown of ordinary hospitals, IDF's new field hospital could provide assistance, medical care to those injured in field, using new, advanced medical gear
The hospital can be set up near the border and utilized as a medical evacuation center for soldiers during times of war. It can also be used to provide humanitarian assistance abroad, like the field hospital deployed in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.
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The emergency room of the new medical facility can admit up to 250 patients a day. It contains 10 stations for critical injuries, 50 hospital beds, 10 ICU beds, clinics, an ultrasound machine, operating rooms, a CT-scanner, a blood-storage room, and even a mental health unit to treat PTSD.
The field hopital will employ a 121-member medical staff and use 10 generators, allowing for a 4-day self-sufficient deployment.
New field hospital (Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
(Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
The new facility is equipped with advanced technologies to create clean oxygen by purifying the air outside. "We estimate that in the next war we will have more critical injuries which we will need to treat in the field," explained Chief Medical Officer Brigadier General Dr. Itzik Kryce.
According to Kryce, "during the Yom Kippur War, a third of the deaths were injured for a period of time before they were treated. During Operation Peace for Galilee the figure stood at 22% and in the Second Lebanon War – 15%. Our target, similar to what the Americans achieved in Afghanistan and Iraq, is to lower the figure to single-digit. "
He added: "That is why we reinforced the number of senior attendants in every battalion to four, either doctors or paramedics."
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