What Is The Role Of The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship ?

What Is The Role Of The U.S. Navy Hospital Ship ? To be specific, it can be seen that they’re the size of cruise ships and comparable in capability to the largest land-based hospitals. Each holds 1,000 hospital beds including 80 intensive care beds. In comparison, the entire state of Maine has 1,061 total and 64 ICU beds.

Importantly, when nations came together to write the Geneva Conventions, defining the rules of war, hospital ships were a significant focus. They specifically define these as any that specifically and solely work to assist the wounded or sick, \with the important distinction that they cannot carry any arms or ammunition. In addition, these ships also must be painted white with red crosses to identify themselves, but assuming these requirements are met, they are officially classified as a hospital ship. Under the Geneva Conventions, those with this categorization cannot be attacked or fired upon. This was all plenty useful at the time the Geneva Conventions were signed. However, land-based warfare is increasingly obsolete, and it just doesn’t make sense to float a hospital to a conflict zone when field hospitals are more capable, and medical evacuation is easily available.
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