Calamiteitenhospitaal

The Calamiteitenhospitaal is a mobile field hospital that can be set up quickly at the site of a major disaster or mass-casualty incident, so that large numbers of injured people can be treated close to where the accident happened. It is linked to UMC Utrecht, which provides its medical staff and equipment, and it trains regularly through practice exercises with emergency services. It matters because it adds treatment capacity to the regular hospitals and ambulance services during large-scale emergencies in the Netherlands.