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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-most-advanced-underground-hospital-opens-in-haifa/
World's Largest, Most Advanced Underground Hospital Opens in Haifa
(Times of Israel) David Shamah - The world's largest and most advanced "fortified hospital" was unveiled this week at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The 2,000-bed underground hospital is designed to keep patients and staff safe dozens of meters below ground even if rockets are falling - as they did during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. It is also designed to keep out chemical or biological weapons. In normal times, the three-level underground structure will be used as a parking facility for up to 1,400 vehicles. But built into the walls and floors are power outlets, connections, air conditioners and heaters, water and filtration systems, and everything else needed to move hospital operations underground. The conversion of the facility to a hospital will take less than 48 hours, hospital officials said.