On Tuesday, November 7, the reception of the Asuta public hospital in Ashdod will start operating, after which the hospital will begin to work in full.
On Monday, November 6, the Minister of Health visited Yaakov Litsman, who installed the "mezuzah" on the doors of the hospital's reception room.
It should be noted that the first patients the hospital began to take in the summer, as the opening of various departments. In October, one of the last, the maternity ward was opened, and in the first days of November - a children's reception room.
The opening of the main reception department is completing the construction of the first stage of the hospital, in which at this stage there are 350 beds. At the second stage, the hospital is planned to expand to 600 beds.
Hospital Asuta in Ashdod - the first in three decades, a new hospital in Israel.
University Hospital Asuta (attributed to the medical faculty of the Beer-Shevsky University) has four resuscitation departments (general, children, newborns and patients with cardiovascular diseases).
Also, there is a therapeutic department, departments of cardiology, general surgery, pediatric surgery, urology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, children's, maternity, premature children's department, gynecology and day hospital.
The hospital also has outpatient clinics - gastroenterology, cardiology, gynecology, IVF, genetic clinic, nuclear medicine clinic, physiotherapy, ophthalmology clinic, oncology, radiotherapy center, angiography, catheterization department, pain clinic, etc.