NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

Instead of building more battle ships or mine sweepers why not build hospital ships for our navy? This would be more along the lines of our United Nations commitment and Canadian values IMHO.

-Used in peace times and times of disaster or war.
-Help alleviate wait times and provincial medical services to remote locations.
-Boost our military presence on a global scale.
-Encourage retention of doctors in the military.
-Provide support to the United Nations when needed.
-Perfect vessel for housing mobile MRI’s and other expensive and diagnostic equipment.
-Manned by mainly military doctors and personnel used in conjunction with civilian land based services augment both.
-Used to service remote civilian locations. Would provide valuable experience to our military doctors in dealing with all walks of life ailments, and illnesses, unlike now where our military doctors are more like sports doctors.
-Used in a limited capacity as a university or as a full blown military medical university, or even a combined civilian military university.
-House decompression chambers for navy divers use and civilians alike.
-Relieve single doctor communities.
-Do tours of remote communities in summer and do training in home port in winter.
-Emergency disaster relief medical help stock pill of supplies.
-Help in the Navy’s doctor recruitment and retention.
-Majority of the world is situated on the coast in coastal communities.
-Would make an ideal location for Quarantine.

Now I would recommend from my limited knowledge of ships and ship building that the Swath hull design be used for smoothness of ride and working deck space. See previous post Swath Hull.
I would also recommend these hospital ships be located on either coast and NOT in the great lakes and no Canada’s coast doesn’t end at Halifax!