NYC hospitals gain devices to counter dirty bombs
Hospital Safety Connection, March 8, 2006
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New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene awarded a contract to EAI Corporation in Abingdon, MD, to supply about 30 private hospitals with radiological detection equipment as a precaution against a dirty bomb attack.
The Department of Homeland Security gave the city a $1 million grant for the project. Among hospitals that will receive the detection equipment are Lenox Hill Hospital and Beth Israel Health Care System.
EAI, a worldwide security firm, will also provide training for hospital staff in the types of radiation and radiation incidents, exposure management, self-protection measures, decontamination techniques, and radiation injury recognition and treatment.
A dirty bomb is a conventional bomb packed with radiological material that could spread around the city, injure people, and make buildings or land unusable. It is not a nuclear bomb.
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