No room at the ER

  Posted on March 13, 2022 by beyondnuclearinternational

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New report looks at how medical services could never cope in a nuclear war

We have already seen how quickly overwhelmed emergency rooms, hospital wards and intensive care units quickly became when faced with the pandemic brought on by the Covid-19 virus. Now, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) brings us its latest report — No place to hide: nuclear weapons and the collapse of health care systems — which looks at how the healthcare systems in 10 major cities would cope in the event of a nuclear war.