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Emergency Situations” Please respond to the following:

Suppose you work in a hospital that just received twelve patientsfrom a disaster event in your community. Your hospital is able to treatand provide necessary surgical services to those that require surgery.However, five patients are refusing care and requesting to betransferred to another hospital for the same services. Suggest thecourse of action that the hospital should take to meet the standards ofthe Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) related topublic health in your community. Provide at least two (2) specificexamples to support your rationale.Imagine that an unidentified individual with a gunshot wound hasbeen transported to the emergency room. After taking the victim intosurgery, the medical team realizes the individual is a minor. Examinethe kind of consent that the team should obtain, and determine theresources that they could utilize in order to obtain this consent.