[Magdalen] Field Hospitals

[Scott Knitter]

I wouldn't be surprised if our field hospital in the vast McCormick Place
convention center will be set up again.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 8:43 AM Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 2020 may be behind us, but I fear the beginning of 2021 is going to be
> very very hard.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Suz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA