Lexicon:Department of Health
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One of the provisions of the Quatermaine Act was the formation of a citywide Department of Health. From the first, the Department was a focal point of controversy. In addition to the Department's unusually large share of the city budget and its seemingly wasteful expenditures (such as the stockpiles), the Department was also criticized for awarding no-bid contracts to companies like NecroTech and Rateger, Inc. for medical supplies and hospital maintenance and operation. Moreover, in the decades since the Quatermaine Act was passed, only one six-year term has passed in which no executives belonging to either NecroTech or Rateger, Inc. were on the Department of Health's advisory council.
Given its suspicious history, many citizens of Malton expected nothing but incompetence in the face of the epidemic. Surprisingly, the Department of Health was one of the first organizations to mount a sophisticated, organized response to the growing crisis. A Department medical team first discovered the viral agent when one of the earliest patients was brought to Peter General Hospital. Later, the Department was largely responsible for coordinating the transition of Malton's medical infrastructure to emergency management mode. They established triage centers in every suburb, distributed medical supplies to churches and other survivor encampments. The Department, with the aid of Army engineers from Fort Creedy, also converted several warehouses in Ridleybank and Barrville to secure morgues once they realized the difficulty of terminating revived subjects.
It is worth noting that some of Malton's surviving medical professionals believe that, had the Department's administrator and advisory council not been killed by the terrorist group DNR in October's suicide attack, they might have turned the tide of the epidemic by early 2006. Admittedly, those holding this view are in the minority, and I am not among them.
Dr. Liam Preston, Royal College of Surgeons
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X1M43 07:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
