Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, known as Ichilov, is a multidisciplinary hospital in Israel. It offers advanced care in oncology, hematology, and cardiology. The center also treats children at the Dana Dwek Children's Hospital. Newsweek ranked Ichilov among the world's top 10 medical tourism destinations. Its Cardiology Department ranks second globally out of over 2,000 institutions. Specialists here were ranked first for treating ventricular fibrillation.
The hospital treats around 100,000 patients each year. Its medical team includes 8,000 employees. The ophthalmology department performs more than 1,600 operations annually. For blood disorders, the team completes about 80 bone marrow transplants a year. Hematologist Professor Ron Ram supervises these procedures. The nephrology unit is a national center for dialysis. Diagnostic tools include the low-radiation EOS imaging system and heart CT scans.
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