Are Hospitals Safer With Or Without Guns?

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A hospital is an establishment dedicated to the medical care of patients, without any doubt in all countries one can find this type of establishment. The people who care for the sick are staff with the faculty and knowledge to do so. Among which there are doctors, nurses, etc. These establishments operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Therefore, it should be noted that hospitals must be equipped with all the instruments and devices to best care for the sick. There are several types of hospital, which should determine whether they need guns or not ("Health Information Security in Hospitals: the Application ...", 2013).

Maintaining acceptable levels of security in hospital centers is one of the most complex issues of security in the so-called public spaces. A hospital center is a small area, but with the greater density of population, with all its dangers, risks and threats, and also inhabited with sick people and visited by others who do not know the place. Perhaps this complexity and public ownership, in many cases, contribute to the classic problems in the hospitals (Magzine, 2019).

Although the particular circumstances of each hospital must be assessed taking into account their distribution, location, capacity, and other variables, the general weak points of these establishments are the access doors from the outside, the emergency exits, the free zones circulation for visitors, emergency services, parking and the area of ​​merchandise access.

Therefore, guns in hospitals are of vital importance. One cannot only address this issue with reference to the protection of infrastructure but must also have to take into account the security of the different areas of the establishment. At present, one can see the professionals doing everything possible to ensure the safety of both staff and patients. It is important to provide guns to security guards according to the needs of the hospital. In this way, each hospital can guarantee the safety of the people who are in it (Magzine, 2019)..

Besides guns, due to advancement in technology, there are various systems that make it possible to guarantee the safety of both people and patients and visitors. In previous years, professionals did not have safety devices that would help keep newborn babies monitored, for example. But nowadays one can count on surveillance cameras. Likewise, patients have technological systems in their room that can activate a button in case of emergency. Also, all access controls to areas in which only professionals can access ("Security - Emergency Preparedness - preparing hospitals ...", 2016).

There are various risks of not providing guns to hospitals. Currently, thieves are doing their job even in hospitals, one can see in the news the number of welfare centers that have been stolen. The staff that works in the hospital has become victims of them, both outside and inside the establishment, the most worrying thing is that it is not explained that they can evade security if it is assumed that the different security devices are active. For this reason, it is important that hospitals have guns of excellent quality and that they are state-of-the-art ("Security - Emergency Preparedness - preparing hospitals ...", 2016).

Thus, Hospitals facilities need specific protocols in terms of security, since the functions of the security guards assigned to hospital services are not limited to the protection of property or the building itself, but involve ensuring the safety of all the people who are in them, both the hospital staff and the patients or visitors of the same. This can only be done with the help of a gun. The most common risks in these buildings or enclosures are fire, flood, theft, aggression, vandalism or terrorism. To face these risks effectively, the Hospital or management company and the security company must provide guns to the hospital ("Hospital Security Systems | Security Systems for Hospitals ...", 2018).

References

Health Information Security in Hospitals: the Application. (2013) ... Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4789743/

Hospital Security Systems | Security Systems for Hospitals. (2018)... Retrieved from https://www.seicosecurity.com/hospital-security-systems.html

Magzine, S. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.securitymagazine.com/keywords/1040-hospital-security

Security - Emergency Preparedness - preparing hospitals. (2016)... Retrieved from https://www.calhospitalprepare.org/security