The National Mobile Disaster Hospital (MDH) from North Carolina opened recently in tornado-ravaged Louisville, Miss., The site has become the temporary medical care center for the community of 19,000, according to an article on the Camel City Dispatch website.
The temporary hospital is expected to be in operation for 12 to 18 months while reconstruction is underway for the 41-bed hospital and the eight of the community’s nine medical offices that were damaged or destroyed in the April tornado.
The MDH is a medical contingency care capability asset that can be deployed anywhere in the nation to augment or temporarily replace a fixed/field medical facility.
The goal is to deploy by ground within 24 hours of mission assignment. All units, with the exception of the ICU, can begin operations within 48 hours. The ICU can be operational within 72 hours after arrival.
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