FACILITIES
The Medical department, under the direction of the Chief Medical
Officer, is pricipally located in two sickbay facilities on Deck 12. The
primary facility, located on the port side of the ship, consists of two
medical intensive-care wards, an attached laboratory, the CMO's office,
and a small nursery. The second facility, located on the starboard side
of Deck 12, is similar to the primary sickbay but features two dedicated
surgery suites, a physical therapy facility, a nursery, and a null-grav
therapy ward. Adjacent to the second facilty is a dental care office
and a full biohazard isolation unit. These facilities provide the
medical staff with an impressive complement of tools with which to
handle extraordinary range of medical problems for both known and
unknown species. Capabilities include a fully equipped medical
laboratory with advanced bio-assay and lifeform analysis hardware. Also
available are nanotherapy, genetic sequence and virotherapeutic
equipment. Medical lab capabilities can be bolstered by employing the
lab services of one or more shipboard science departments. In a large
scale medical emergency situation, all three shuttle bays can be
converted to medium and intensive-care hospital facilities using quick
deploy emergency hospital modules. Additionally, lesser numbers of
overflow patients can be handled by conversion of guest quarters on
decks 5 and 6 to medical intensive care units.