Healthcare generates 4.4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions — and 71 per cent of that comes from the supply chain, not the building. Here is where the problem actually lives.

Hospitals are responsible for 4.4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A green hospital is the profession's answer to that — and the evidence on what it means for patients is clearer than most clinicians realise.

Every institution that has survived a crisis — military, civilian, or medical — has done so because someone, somewhere, prepared for it before it arrived. The question is whether we are willing to learn from the ones that did.