[Magdalen] Field Hospitals

[Roger Stokes]

They have started reactivating the Nightingale Hospitals in a number of 
towns and cities in England as the regular hospitals come under extra 
pressure but there is concern about how they will find enough trained 
staff to run them. The armed services are running test centres up and 
down the country and will soon be providing support to secondary schools 
as they start a programme of mass testing this month. As a result their 
capacity to support the running of these extra treatment centres is 
bound to be limited.

Roger

On 02/01/2021 00:26, Suzie Buchanan wrote:
> 7 months after taking down their field hospitals from Central Park in NYC, Samaritan’s Purse today began to erect a field hospital two blocks from my church here in Lenoir NC.   They will help with the overcrowding at 5 hospitals in nearby towns from Hickory to Boone - all of which are at capacity.
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> 2020 may be behind us, but I fear the beginning of 2021 is going to be very very hard.
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> Locally we still hear stories of the Miracle of Hickory from the Polio pandemic, summer of 1944.   Wednesday at noon the decision was made that they needed to open a hospital for children with polio and admitted first patients 54 hours later.  Over 500 children were treated there. I still have a survivor of that in my parish.  They had an existing stone building to start with but also used many Army tents and brought in personnel from across the country.
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