CH-328 The Real Masterstroke.

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SUHANI POV

Every senior consultant, board executive, and department head filled the space, along with some department coordinators and a few bold faced interns who'd refused to leave

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Every senior consultant, board executive, and department head filled the space, along with some department coordinators and a few bold faced interns who'd refused to leave. The table was packed. Others were pressed against the walls. Syria stood beside me scribbling in her notebook. Dr Lillian sat with her jaw clenched, her fingers twitching around a pen that had stopped working half an hour ago.

Dr Suzan had dark bags under her eyes and a bandage on her wrist from where broken glass had scraped her during the earlier chaos. The interns- God, some of them looked like they were about to faint again.

The conference room was suffocating.
I had led hundreds of meetings in this hospital clinical evaluations, medical board audits, research debriefings, student evaluations. But none of those meetings ever felt like this. Not like a countdown to disaster. On the giant projection screen behind me flashed a red banner: EMERGENCY STRATEGY - HOSPITAL LOCKDOWN.

I inhaled once, trying to steady my pulse and for a moment I look towards him who is silent all this time, didn't speak a word but just watching me and I cleared my throat louder than expected.

Suhani- We need to initiate a structured evacuation of the facility before the agents seal the hospital and campus. Everyone here is aware of the stakes. Our patients come first. Always. But our window is limited and our resources even more so.

Silence. Pin drop silence.

Dr Knox- Emergency wing has seventy nine patients. Twenty one are tagged critical. Four intubated. Two on ECMO. Half of them can't even survive basic transport without ICU grade backup. What do you want us to do, Doctor Park carry them on our backs?

Suhani- No. I want us to stop panicking and start planning.

My voice rang louder than I intended. I didn't regret it.

Syria- Cardiology reports damage to the remote telemetry units. Live vitals from the south tower are gone. We can't even monitor who's crashing.

Dr Suzie- We lost two operating theaters to the gas explosion in wing C. The neuro cases scheduled tomorrow can't be postponed. And for God's sake-Dawson is due for heart replacement at 6:30 a.m. delaying that could kill him.

Dr Lillian- And where exactly are we shifting him? We've called every tertiary hospital within 100 km. They're all either overloaded or scared to accept transfers because of the federal alert hanging over our name. We are blacklisted, Doctor Park.

Suhani- Then we'll stabilize and keep them here for as long as we can. Start with the lower dependency patients. Syria, set up an evac list based on triage tags. Red for critical, Yellow for Serious and and Green for stable

Syria- I've already flagged 236 transportable patients. But...

She hesitated. My heart sank before she said it.

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