Malta’s Underground Wartime Hospital: The Hidden Tunnels Beneath the Siege

During the brutal Siege of Malta in World War II, hospitals on the island faced constant Axis bombing. To keep treating the wounded, British and Maltese engineers expanded tunnels beneath limestone hills, creating underground medical wards protected from air raids. One such facility near Mtarfa became a hidden hospital carved directly into rock, where surgeons worked under dim lights while bombs struck above. This short explores how Malta’s underground hospitals helped the island survive one of the longest and most intense bombing campaigns of the war.

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