The world’s largest ambulance (and the world’s smallest X-ray unit)

To my opinion, such solution is a technological & medical non-sense.

The purpose of this megaemergencybus is to be what army knows as "campaign surgery center", in order to respond to massive catastrophy.

Yet, nobody reacts on the fact that when a catastrophy occurs, is often comes with destruction of roads or massive traffic jam.

Therefore, this megabus will be inefective.

By the way, that is the reason why military campaign surgery center are, for long, mounted on the top of all-road trucks.

Ariel

http://terremerair.ddbd.com

http://www.avocats.fr/space/ariel.dahan

Ariel

- May 14, 2009 @ 11:05 am CDT

No doubt, it's size and equipment is really tremendous. But the suitability of this huge ambulance are on the flat land. But, wonder in case of real catastropy with massive damage of the road surface can this vehicle go through?

razif

- May 15, 2009 @ 05:05 am CDT

It is obvious that Ariel is not familiar with the local situation in Dubai that those buses were produced for. The Emergency Medical Services are faced with Mass Casualty events due to road traffic accidents, accidents on the construction sites and fires in skyscrapers and factories on a daily basis. Instead of sending out 10 ambulances it is possible to dispatch one of the large capacity ambulance buses, which increases the effectivness of the response.

In Europe those buses make just as much sense to optimize prepardness for mass events, hospital evacuations or pandemic outbreaks such as the swine flu (i.e. isolation of all passengers after an airplane landing with a suspecious patient...).

In sum: those buses make a lot of technological & medical sense!

(Dr. Martin von Bergh, Project Manager -- info@globalmedicalconsulting.net)

Martin

- May 17, 2009 @ 06:05 am CDT