Volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse are building medical tents that will ultimately serve as a respiratory unit with 50 beds. The field hospital is being built in the parking lot of Antelope Valley Hospital.
LENOIR, N.C. (RNS) The evangelical humanitarian relief organization has trained healthcare workers or treated COVID-19 patients in 30 countries. Its latest field hospital is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Samaritan s Purse sets up a field hospital in Los Angeles County, January 2021. | Samaritan’s Purse
As COVID-19 cases are rising in nearly every state in the U.S., the Christian disaster relief organization Samaritan’s Purse has announced the opening of two emergency field hospitals one in North Carolina and the other in California to care for people suffering from the disease.
Samaritan’s Purse has opened an Emergency Field Hospital in Lenoir, North Carolina, and is preparing to open one in Lancaster, California, as “a steady influx of patients” is expected to arrive “over the next several days,” the group, led by evangelist Franklin Graham, said.
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