Italian Hospital in Haifa

[1] The Italian Hospital has four departments: oncology, general medicine, surgery and orthopedic rehabilitation.

[5] The oncology department is acting as a subsidiary of the Rambam Hospital[1] and underwent a major technological upgrade in 2016, when a complete oncological radiation treatment center was installed, consisting in a CT simulator, a cobalt radiation therapy room and sophisticated software for accurate results.

[1] It was the only medical center in northern Palestine and employed Italian, Jewish and Arab surgeons.

[2] From the beginning, the hospital was administered by the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Egypt, as they were called at the time.

[1] Ten years later, for professional reasons, the department subordinated its activity to Haifa's main teaching hospital, Rambam.