Or… use the truck to bring patients to a proper care facility that’s not constrained in capacity by the size of a truck.
Assuming that the patient is not so sick/elderly/frail that they can be safely and comfortably transported, sure.
But if medivac isn't an option then the current choices are to get the surgeon to come in to do procedures in whatever limited facilities are on hand, or just let the patient be. Even if the doctor is willing to travel, that could wipe hours from their day that could be used to treat other patients.
Shipping a mobile hospital to a disaster zone is a great idea, but if you want remote surgery there you can just set it up where there’s a landline.
You can do that, sure, but a 5G equipped unit can be positioned with greater flexibility and doesn't need to be centralized as much. Disaster situations are inherently unpredictable so disaster relief wants to be as adaptable as possible.
We can go back and forth making hypotheticals all day, but the bottom line is that a flexible unit that can be position within X hundred meters from any working 5g tower is going to be preferable in a general sense to something tied to functional landline.
Also telesurgery only makes sense for specialized surgeries that justify needing a specific surgeon who isn’t near you. You can just ship real surgeons to the disaster.
Again, it takes time to ship in real surgeons. Time during which:
people can die for lack of treatment; and
specialist surgeons are sitting on a plane or a bus and not actually performing surgery.
Not to mention that you can only ship in so many surgeons from any one area without depriving their home area of surgical coverage, whereas with tele-surgery any surgeon within latency range can be called up to operate with little downtime.
Edit: it also just occured to me that 5G tele-surgery would be a huge boon to parts of Africa and the developing world that leapfrogged widespread landlines in the first place in favor of 3/4G.
Assuming that the patient is not so sick/elderly/frail that they can be safely and comfortably transported, sure.
But if medivac isn't an option then the current choices are to get the surgeon to come in to do procedures in whatever limited facilities are on hand, or just let the patient be. Even if the doctor is willing to travel, that could wipe hours from their day that could be used to treat other patients.
You can do that, sure, but a 5G equipped unit can be positioned with greater flexibility and doesn't need to be centralized as much. Disaster situations are inherently unpredictable so disaster relief wants to be as adaptable as possible.
We can go back and forth making hypotheticals all day, but the bottom line is that a flexible unit that can be position within X hundred meters from any working 5g tower is going to be preferable in a general sense to something tied to functional landline.
Again, it takes time to ship in real surgeons. Time during which:
people can die for lack of treatment; and
specialist surgeons are sitting on a plane or a bus and not actually performing surgery.
Not to mention that you can only ship in so many surgeons from any one area without depriving their home area of surgical coverage, whereas with tele-surgery any surgeon within latency range can be called up to operate with little downtime.
Edit: it also just occured to me that 5G tele-surgery would be a huge boon to parts of Africa and the developing world that leapfrogged widespread landlines in the first place in favor of 3/4G.