Basically it is a fully equipped hospital.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> <span class="bbc_u"><strong>Medical facilities</strong></span> <br/><br/>The Galaxy-class medical department was charged with providing health care to the ship's company and all attached personnel.<br/><br/><strong>Sickbay</strong><br/><br/>There were at least three sickbay wards aboard the ship, (TNG: "Tapestry") with at least one in the saucer section (TNG: "Genesis") and another in the stardrive section. (TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom") There were four recovery biobeds on the periphery of the room with a main surgical biobed opposite them, covered by a large overhead sensor cluster and capable of hookup to a surgical support frame. Equipment storage and various control panels were located throughout sickbay. The chief medical officer's office was a small space just off the main sickbay, with desk and workspace for the CMO. A small foyer connected the office to the sickbay; it contained a replicator terminal.<br/><br/>Separate, private recovery rooms were also located near sickbay, (TNG: "Ethics") as was a nursery (TNG: "Home Soil", "Data's Day") and a diagnostic center. (TNG: "Transfigurations")<br/><br/>A Galaxy-class sickbay also had the facilities to isolate parasitic protoviruses. (TNG: "Brothers")<br/><br/><strong>Medlabs</strong><br/><br/>Galaxy-class ships had at least four medical laboratories of varying sizes. There was a small laboratory accessible through the foyer outside the chief medical officer's office where minor experiments run by on-duty personnel could be monitored. (TNG: "Home Soil", "Evolution", "Clues", "The Game") Other larger medlabs similar to standard science labs were elsewhere. (TNG: "Ethics")<br/>Surgical suite Edit<br/><br/>Surgeries too complicated for the sickbay ward could be conducted in a separate surgical area which had a large variety of bio-support systems. (TNG: "Ethics")<br/><br/><strong>Emergency bio-support unit</strong><br/><br/>There was a separate room located near the main sickbay facility on Deck 12 that contained the emergency bio-support unit. Patients with severe burn injuries could be treated here in a closed cell. (TNG: "Transfigurations")<br/><br/><strong>Physical rehabilitation bay</strong><br/><br/>Similar in size and design of the room housing the emergency bio support unit, this space was used for the physical rehabilitation of patients in sickbay. Several weights were available in racks as well various scanners, including the prominently placed unit located in the center of the ceiling. (TNG: "Transfigurations")<br/><br/><strong>Morgue</strong><br/><br/>A morgue facility with storage slots for several bodies was located adjacent to sickbay. (TNG: "Man of the People", "Suspicions") </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think we can be reasonably free and easy with that... Sick bay takes up most of Deck 12 in the Saucer Section, with a smaller back-up facility in the Stardrive section.