Lack of hospital facilities for pandemic
December 8th, 2006
Revere at Effect Measure reminds us that A pandemic could be bad (in case you hadn’t heard). In this case he reminds us that emergency medical services will be stressed beyond their limit, leading to many very serious patients (not just with influenza) being denied treatment. Heart attack? Sorry. Please come back in two months.
As Revere reminds us:
Health care has become so expensive we have tried to wring the last drop of efficiency out of it, cutting down on beds and staffing. With no reserve and no redundancy I have no doubt we will find it to be a false economy. Sometimes inefficiency and redundancy aren’t wasted resources, they are common sense.
Entry Filed under: Avian flu, Healthcare, Public Health
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