Lexicon:Clinics
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After the quarantine force lifted their jamming of shortwave radio transmissions, I took it upon myself to attempt contact with possible survivors among Malton's medical community. My original goal was to ascertain roughly how many health-care professionals had survived the outbreak, and were thus available to render first-aid to other survivors. I had assumed, as had many others, that the health-care infrastructure would have swiftly collapsed under the sheer load of patients needing treatment, the dearth of outside supplies, the elimination of communication lines and the loss (through infection, death, or evacuation) of most administrative personnel. Fortunately for the survivors of Malton, I was very much in error.
Since the Quatermaine Act was passed in 1970, Malton's hospitals (and its malls) have housed emergency stockpiles of first-aid kits and simple surgical equipment, in case of a citywide disaster. Though it was mocked at the time as a colossal waste of resources and hospital space, the Quatermaine Act now seems unusually prescient. Malton's surviving medical professionals quickly gathered at the hospitals, turning them into makeshift safehouses where survivors could come for surprisingly effective treatment or simple shelter from the hordes outside.
In October, when the last of the besieged NecroTech facilities fell, Malton's doctors and nurses were joined by a large number of low-level NecroTech researchers who remained stranded in the city. Among them were those with knowledge of Agent 51, the serum which revives the infected, restoring them to full humanity. Groups of survivors with medical training, scientific expertise, and a healthy supply of Agent 51 "liberated" from NecroTech facilities soon commandeered abandoned buildings and open spaces for use as "revivification clinics." One of the largest and most successful is currently operating in the north of Malton, in a neighborhood called Yagoton.
If external medical response teams could link up with the clinics operating inside Malton, I believe we have a chance of rescuing a significant percentage of the population from the fate of undeath.
Dr. Liam Preston, Royal College of Surgeons
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X1M43 03:54, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
