Sheba Medical Center
Founded as Israel’s national hospital in 1948, Sheba Medical Center is now the largest medical center in the Middle East and has been ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the world for three years in a row by Newsweek magazine. Sheba Medical Center plays a central role in Israel’s healthcare system and was put in charge of Israel’s successful and much-admired Covid-19 effort by the prime minister.
Every year Sheba Medical Center’s 10,000 medical professionals deliver 11,000 babies, do 50,000 surgeries, treat over 50,000 cancer patients and have contact with almost 20% of the Israeli population. In addition to its centrality in Israel, Sheba Medical Center also reaches outside Israel’s borders to offer healthcare and healing wherever it is needed. So many requests come in for Israeli and Sheba Medical Center expertise and help that it formed the Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response. And now the requests come in from all over
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Nathan Jeffay is The Times of Israel s health and science correspondent
A healthcare worker prepares the material to test a child for COVID-19, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)
An Israeli aid delegation was set to land Tuesday in Uruguay, a country that went almost overnight from a low-COVID oasis to a notorious hotspot with the world’s second-highest rate of new cases.
The four-person team from Sheba Medical Center’s weeklong mission will focus on helping hospitals struggling to cope with the sudden skyrocketing of cases in recent weeks to establish new coronavirus facilities.