More:Airlift Brings Supplies to Emergency Field Hospital in Iraq
January 30, 2017 • Iraq
Medical personnel at the Samaritan's Purse emergency field hospital in Iraq work hard to save lives and care for patients with the love of Jesus.
Our DC-8 was loaded with aid to help those suffering as a result of the conflict in Mosul.
Samaritan’s Purse has airlifted relief supplies to northern Iraq from Greensboro, North Carolina, aboard our DC-8 aircraft. These supplies will benefit our emergency field hospital on the Plains of Nineveh.
Northern Iraq Projects
Franklin Graham officially dedicated the 50-bed trauma unit in a ceremony January 12
with Iraqi government officials and United Nations representatives. The hospital staff is providing expert trauma care to adults and children injured in the battle between Iraqi and coalition forces and ISIS militants in Mosul.
The Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 departed Greensboro on January 20.
We are treating those with severe wounds from mortar rounds, car bombs, and sniper fire. About two-thirds of patients arriving at the field hospital are critically injured and likely would not have survived the one-to two-hour drive to Erbil—the location of the closest trauma center before ours opened.
More than 300 patients, from infants to an 84-year-old, have been treated at the emergency field hospital so far. Many are women and children. Since the facility opened, our medical team has performed more than 140 surgeries.
The emergency field hospital arrived in Iraq on a charter jet Christmas Day and has an emergency room, two operating rooms, and pharmacy. Christian medical personnel are needed to staff the hospital for deployments of three weeks or longer. ...
