קופות חולים, מוקדים דחופים ובתי חולים

All four health funds are in Kiryat Gat (NBN (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)), and three of them have a clinic inside Carmei Gat. Browse health fund branches, doctors and urgent care.

Clinics inside Carmei Gat

• Clalit: a combined clinic at 1 Avnei HaChoshen Blvd (the Gat Center building), with a pharmacy, Tipat Chalav and a child development institute at the same address (Clalit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• Maccabi: the Carmei Gat medical centre at 1 Sderot Avnei HaChoshen, 08-6243333 (Maccabi (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• Leumit: 157 Lachish Blvd, 08-6923300, with a pharmacy, lab and flu shots (Leumit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• Meuhedet: a 2021 local news report puts its Carmei Gat clinic at 153 Lachish Blvd, 08-6448356 (shhuna.co.il (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)). Meuhedet's site blocks automated checks, so please confirm the address and hours before you go.

Doctors who list English

Maccabi's service guide lists English among the spoken languages for 61 of its 66 doctors in Kiryat Gat, including family doctors, a paediatrician and gynaecologists at the Carmei Gat centre; one rheumatologist also lists French (Maccabi (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)). I've listed a sample in the directory. The other funds don't publish languages in a way I could check.

Clalit's specialist centre is at 37 HaAtzmaut Blvd (08-9335222), with ENT, orthopaedics, cardiology, women's health, X-ray and more (Clalit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).

After hours

• Terem Kiryat Gat, 10 Cheshvan St, phone 1-599-520-520. Terem lists Sun-Fri 09:00 to 05:45 and Sat 08:00 to 05:45, and says that between 04:00 and 05:45 there is no doctor on site (Terem (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)). Leumit names Terem as its emergency centre.
• Clalit's evening clinic at Ramot David (16 Netivot Shalom St) runs Mon, Wed and Thu 18:00-21:00 (Clalit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• Ambulance: 101. MDA's Kiryat Gat station is at 6 Lachish Blvd (MDA (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• ERAN (emotional first aid) 1201 and NATAL (trauma from war or terror) 1-800-3633631 are on the municipality's list (municipality (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).

Which hospital?

I'll be honest: I couldn't find a source that says which hospital Carmei Gat residents are taken to by default. What I found:

• Barzilai in Ashkelon (24/7 lines 08-6745555 and 08-6663106) (Barzilai (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)). NBN says it's about 35 km away, 35-45 minutes' drive (NBN (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)), and a 2015 Maariv report describes MDA Kiryat Gat taking a patient there (Maariv (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).
• Soroka in Be'er Sheva (08-6400111) and Kaplan in Rehovot (08-9441211) are Clalit hospitals (Clalit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)). When Soroka was hit and evacuated, its patients were moved to Barzilai, Assuta Ashdod and hospitals in the centre (Ynet (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)).

In practice, MDA decides where an ambulance goes. If you know how it works for Carmei Gat, or your fund's referral hospital, please tell me with the email button on the About page.

Dentists

Clalit Smile has clinics in Gat Center (1st floor) and the Yishpro Center (Clalit (נפתח בכרטיסייה חדשה)), but no source I found says English is spoken at any Carmei Gat dentist, so I haven't listed one yet. Recommendations with a public source are very welcome.