http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/05/06/hospital-emergency-rooms-are-unprepared-for-terror-attack/ Homeland Security News and Information Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:49:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/05/06/hospital-emergency-rooms-are-unprepared-for-terror-attack/comment-page-1/#comment-37550 Tricia Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:53:22 +0000 http://www.nationalterroralert.com/?p=2587#comment-37550 our hospitals are at a major risk for a terror attack. there is little security measure taken when people enter to visit or make deliveries to patients. about two weeks ago a man left a bomb in a waiting room inside a new jersey hospital. this was not widely publicized and quieted stating that it was left by a disgruntled patient. anyone can go to the maternity ward (or any other department for that matter) during visiting hours with little to no inspection of gifts or bags brought onto the floors of the hospitals. if our emergency rooms are attacked, what then??? especially if coordinated with other major attacks in within the cities limits. if our emergency rooms and medical staff are taken out, what then... so not only are these hospitals unprepared to handle a terror attack outside of its walls, they are GROSSLY unprepared to avoid one happening within them. our hospitals are at a major risk for a terror attack. there is little security measure taken when people enter to visit or make deliveries to patients. about two weeks ago a man left a bomb in a waiting room inside a new jersey hospital. this was not widely publicized and quieted stating that it was left by a disgruntled patient. anyone can go to the maternity ward (or any other department for that matter) during visiting hours with little to no inspection of gifts or bags brought onto the floors of the hospitals. if our emergency rooms are attacked, what then??? especially if coordinated with other major attacks in within the cities limits.
if our emergency rooms and medical staff are taken out, what then… so not only are these hospitals unprepared to handle a terror attack outside of its walls, they are GROSSLY unprepared to avoid one happening within them.

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