As a biological, chemical or nuclear dispersion hits its population, the hospital is the last place you want to go. Infected victims will overwhelm all paths toward the emergency room.
But war and terrorism still include plenty of conventional weapons. If the hospital is hit, victims have nowhere to get help.
Emergency Treatment Centers (ETC) located on your site are safer and more likely to do the job. The ETC is an isolated underground hospital. Victims have immediate access to antibiotics and disinfection showers.
Emergency preparedness planners have to plan for prevention of and mitigation of terrorist attacks. Underground Emergency Treatment Centers protect shelterist owners when hospitals are overwhelmed or disabled.
Even large hospitals can go underground. The Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, Israel is operating a fortified underground emergency room.
The largest hospital on Israel’s southern coast has gone underground. Wary of a missile strike against it from the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon’s Barzilai Hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter.
Emergency preparers can network underground emergency treatment centers in expectation that some attacks will not be prevented and will hit above ground hospitals.
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