'Disposable' hospital prototype coming to Pittsburgh suburb
Emergency Management Alert, July 28, 2003
Work begins next month in Monroeville, PA, on an experimental portable hospital that could house victims of bioterrorism and be disposed of, if necessary, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Monroeville is 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The 6,000-sq-ft Emergency Isolation Treatment Shelter could be quickly transported and assembled in response to a bioterror incident. It is being built by counterterrorism group Region 13, which received a federal grant. The shelter could also house victims of a natural disaster or serve as an isolation facility for people who must be quarantined because of infectious diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome. The shelters cost $525,000 each.
A group of 25 unskilled laborers could assemble a 500-bed hospital in 72 hours, according to plans designed by Daedalus Project Inc. of Virginia. The building blocks of the shelter are 50-in square polymer composite panels originally designed for low-cost housing in developing countries.
Treated with an antimicrobial paint, the panels can be cleaned of any known infectious agent brought in by a patient, or it can be safely burned.
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