makeshift hospital

In the times of the Cold War, the provision of makeshift hospitals, also called auxiliary hospitals or emergency hospitals, was part of the legally obligatory precautions of the federal states with the support of the federal government. The basis for this in Germany is § 15 of the law on civil defense of 09 August 1976, which has already been replaced by a new version of 1997. In the currently valid version of the Civil Defense Act, there are no longer any requirements for the provision of auxiliary hospitals, although the current Corona situation shows that makeshift hospitals are needed more than ever to ensure medical care for the people. Time and again, the media report on plans to build makeshift hospitals to physically separate Corona-infected people from other patients and thus reduce the spread of the infection. The German pioneer is Berlin, where a hospital is being [...]