Samaritan’s Purse provides
crucial medical care to coronavirus-hit Italy
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| Samaritan's Purse sets up Emergency Field Hospital in Cremona (ANSA) |
Christian charity “Samaritan Purse” airlifts an Emergency
Field Hospital to northern Italy to help provide critical relief to those
sickened by the covid-19 pandemic.
By Linda Bordoni
Christian organizations are joining other relief agencies
across the globe in a concerted response to the coronavirus pandemic crisis.
Providing life-saving medical assistance and equipment to
particularly hard-hit communities in northern Italy is Samaritan’s Purse, which
has airlifted a 68-bed Emergency Field Hospital to the city of Cremona, near
Milan.
The nondenominational evangelical Christian organization’s
mission is to provide spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the
world.
Italy crisis
Notwithstanding stringent lockdown measures, the number of
novel coronavirus cases in Italy is rising at a rate of around 3,500 new cases
or more every day, and the death toll has topped 2,900.
A Samaritan’s Purse team is on the ground in Cremona, about
90 kilometres from Milan, setting up a mobile facility with approximately 20
tons of medical equipment, a respiratory care unit developed specifically for
this response, and 32 disaster relief personnel, including doctors and nurses,
who will stay in the country for at least a month.
About two-thirds of all coronavirus deaths in Italy have
been in the Lombardy region, where both Cremona and Milan are located, and the
need for intensive care beds has quickly overwhelmed the capacity of the local
healthcare system.
Providing care in the name of Jesus Christ
Samaritan’s Purse is the first international organization to
provide emergency medical relief to families impacted by this deadly virus in
northern Italy.
The organization’s President, Franklyn Graham, says “Not
only are we providing skilled emergency medical care, our staff is working
alongside local evangelical churches and chaplains to bring spiritual comfort
and the hope found only in the Gospel.”
Operating since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet
needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and
famine throughout the world, providing food, water, shelter, medicine, and
other assistance in the Name of Jesus Christ.
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