I am sure an IRL hostage situation alrrady happened at an hospital, so we could have the answer in a variety of cases. My opinion would be the hospital should

I am sure an IRL hostage situation alrrady happened at an hospital, so we could have the answer in a variety of cases. My opinion would be the hospital should open up to the police and accept their fate whatever the outcome. The gov./police makes the calculation of the impact of X people dying a very public way, the Y amount that is requested, and the ton of other wildcards (e.g. can we catch the gang now ? after the ransom is paid ? void the ransom some way afterwards ? limit the number of death in other ways ? what will the other victims take away fom this case ?). At the end of it there should be a custom approach to that specific situation and not some blanklet policy application. This also assumes a cooperative and somewhat decent police force, which might not be the case everywhere (but then I think we're screwed anyway)