Since you're down to synchronization, not replication now -
should you export the data to some simple portable format, and then send it to hospital and/or to the home base? This way you don't need any sophisticated tools over connection, and if you chnage the central data server, you can still support old versions.
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We have only 2 things to worry about: That
things will never get back to normal, and that they already have.