Samaritan's Purse, a North Carolina-based Christian relief organization, has mobilized its Emergency Field Hospital for deployment to Venezuela following devastating earthquakes that killed more than 500 people and injured thousands more.
A 767 cargo plane is scheduled to depart tomorrow carrying medical equipment, shelter materials and supplies. The field hospital can treat over 100 patients daily and will include operating rooms, critical care units, pharmacy services and laboratory capacity. Additional airlifts are planned to deliver water filtration systems, hygiene kits and further medical support.
The earthquakes have damaged hospitals, fractured infrastructure and displaced entire communities across Venezuela. The field hospital deployment aims to address a critical bottleneck in the damaged hospital infrastructure and overwhelmed medical personnel during the first weeks after the disaster, when triage and life-saving interventions are most critical.
The organization operates in more than 100 countries and brings expertise to disaster response. The deployment is expected to provide medical care to Venezuelan earthquake survivors who might not otherwise have access to such services in the immediate aftermath of the seismic events.
