Emergency Field Hospital (Fact Sheet)

OVERVIEW:

The emergency field hospital is mobile and ready to deploy at a moment’s notice to provide emergency medical relief in disaster-stricken areas where the medical infrastructure is damaged, overwhelmed, or nonexistent.

MISSION:

• The emergency field hospital expands the Samaritan’s Purse medical response capacity by quickly putting the right equipment and resources in disaster areas.
• This resource allows Samaritan’s Purse to serve as many people as possible with emergency medical care, while also ministering to their spiritual needs.

SPECIFICS:

El hospital está diseñado para personalizar cada respuesta de emergencia que realiza, ya que son muy particulares las necesidades de las personas afectadas en cada área.

• At its maximum deployed capacity, the emergency field hospital is made up of all the components listed below and spans nearly an acre of land:
  • Cuarto de emergencias
  • Laboratorio
  • Ultrasound imaging capabilities
  • Más de 50 camas para pacientes hospitalizados (se puede movilizar con tan solo 20 camas)
  • Dos salas de operación
  • Carpa para la esterilización de cirugía
  • Digital X-ray capabilities
  • Unidad de cuidados intensivos
• At maximum capacity, the emergency field hospital staff can treat more than 100 patients and perform 15 – 25 surgeries daily, and function as a full hospital.
• A deployed hospital is staffed with 20 – 60 medical personnel, including highly skilled physicians, nurses, surgeons, lab technicians, anesthesiologists, pharmacists, water and sanitation engineers, and other support-services professionals.
• Staff members are experts in their fields and participate in specialized training programs to prepare them to serve during a disaster.
• Un equipo de profesionales especialmente entrenados es enviado junto con el personal del hospital para instalarlo, con la meta que el hospital esté ya operando en las primeras 24 horas de haber llegado al lugar designado.
• El hospital móvil de emergencias llega al sitio designado con todo el equipo médico necesario para poder funcionar de forma independiente, incluyendo generadores de electricidad y sistemas de purificación del agua.

DEPLOYMENTS:

• Ecuador: abril, 2016-Following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador, Samaritan’s Purse first deployed its emergency field hospital. This gave Samaritan’s Purse doctors and nurses a physical location to provide life-saving medical care to earthquake victims. Over the course of two months, Samaritan’s Purse medical staff treated 1,285 patients and performed 287 surgeries.
• Irak: December 2016-Samaritan’s Purse deployed the emergency field hospital to Iraq as coalition forces and ISIS fighters fought for control of Mosul. Located 11 miles from the front line, Samaritan’s Purse provided emergency trauma care to more than 4,000 victims of war and performed more than 1,700 major surgeries.

Samaritan’s Purse, headed by Franklin Graham, is an international Christian relief and evangelism organization working in more than 100 countries to provide aid to victims of war, disease, disaster, poverty, famine and persecution. For more information, visit //www.samaritanspurse.org.