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The first contract, for three Rapidly Deployable Medical Response Systems,was awarded by the Idaho Central District Health Department. This contractincludes customized BLU-MED deployable medical shelters, HVAC and electricalsystems, generators and ancillary support units. In addition to the portablemedical shelters and equipment, BLU-MED will provide training and technicalsupport services for the Central District Health Department in Idaho in early2008. The state-of-the-art BLU-MED shelter systems will be used to boostmedical surge capacity in the event of pandemic influenza, bioterrorism, orother mass casualty incident.
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The second contract, awarded by the Suffolk County Fire Rescue andEmergency Services agency, is for two Rapidly Deployable Medical ResponseSystems. Suffolk County will have access to these BLU-MED RapidSurge Systemsfull-scale emergency medical shelters that have been upgraded with negativepressure isolation capacity, a decontamination system, and a complete latrinepackage.
"These systems will offer great flexibility in meeting both Idaho's andSuffolk County's public health needs in a disaster or emergency," saidpresident of BLU-MED Response Systems Gerrit Boyle. "They can be utilized toprovide space for hospital surge capacity, medical isolation and large scaleimmunizations, as well as, extra capacity for triage and evaluation at thescene of an incident."
The new BLU-MED Response contracts will add Idaho and Suffolk County, NYto a growing list of states, counties and municipalities that are buildingtheir preparedness for large-scale public health emergencies. "We are pleasedto assist these government agencies in their strategies to build a tangiblesystem of deployable assets for medical preparedness," said Boyle.
About BLU-MED Response Systems
BLU-MED Response Systems is America's Leader in Deployable MedicalFacilities. BLU-MED also provides turnkey, portable shelter-based solutionsfor alternate command centers, temporary housing and base camp requirements.The company offers a full range of medical equipment packages and relatedsupport services including vendor managed inventory, field deployment, andtraining & exercise support.
BLU-MED facilities can be sized and customized to meet a variety of stateand local emergency management and public health needs, with modular optionsincluding medical surge wards, patient treatment, decontamination,immunization/drug distribution, negative pressure isolation, and fieldlaboratory units. BLU-MED Response Systems is a division of Alaska Structures,Inc. For more information see http://www.blu-med.com.
This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information,visit http://www.ereleases.com.Contact: Gerrit Boyle 360.318.9913
SOURCE BLU-MED Response Systems
