This week, officials at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center learned that preparations for emergency situations pay off. The hospital directors requested to upgrade the Israel Electric Company feed to the medical center, a move that required much advanced planning.

Israel Electric Company made the necessary preparations and the hospital was cut off the national grid while the changeover was made, including new high-tension lines. The medical center continued business as usual, operating off of emergency generators for eight hours.

The hospital had senior engineers and other professionals alerted along with 300 nurses on emergency standby in “sensitive units” HaMevaser reports in the event of an emergency during the night as the changeover was taking place, but Baruch Hashem, the emergency generators are maintained as they should be and the hospital continued operating on backup energy without incident.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)