Overcrowded and inefficient hospitals enabled disease to spread unchecked
Evidence
If these were the conditions in which the soldiers lived, it is no wonder that they easily fell prey to scabies. And seeing how overcrowded, badly equipped and inefficiently run the hospitals were, then it should not be difficult to see why the authorities found it difficult to control the spread of disease to other unaffected soldiers. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1147
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Squalid living conditions and poor hospitals caused rapid disease spread among Egyptian troops (similarity 0.87)
- Overcrowded Syrian field hospitals could not enforce scabies treatment regimens (similarity 0.84)
- Poor Syrian hospital conditions undermined the army’s disease-control orders (similarity 0.83)
- Scabies spread because logistics failed to supply soldiers with clean uniforms (similarity 0.82)
- Syrian field hospital conditions undermined all medical orders from Cairo (similarity 0.81)
- Soldiers’ venereal diseases drained the fighting force in Syria (similarity 0.80)
- Mehmed Ali’s Syrian field hospitals were dangerously overcrowded and understaffed (similarity 0.80)
- Acre hospital’s overcrowding prevented standard scabies treatment and patient control (similarity 0.80)
- Lack of funds caused the collapse of the army hospital system (similarity 0.79)
- Egyptian barracks overcrowding and uniform shortages caused scabies to spread (similarity 0.78)