Disasters have always posed a great challenge to human beings [1]. An immediate impact of most disasters on the local health care system is the huge number of casualties that outstrip their capability to provide the required care [2]. A timely summoning of field hospitals (FH) especially in large-scale disasters can significantly contribute to the process of surge capacity [3]. A Field hospital is defined as a "mobile, self-contained, self-sufficient health care facility capable of rapid deployment and expansion or contraction to meet immediate emergency requirements for a specified period of time" [4].
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