The group’s shipping plane carried 20 tons of medical equipment, a specialized respiratory care unit and 32 crisis reaction specialists. The hospital will be set up until Friday, about 80 km from Milan.
A total of 60 more people from the charity will paint for assistance once they have arrived at the site.
Samaritan’s Purse, which runs through Fraklin Graham, published a post about the effort on his website, such as images detailing his work.
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“Samaritan’s Purse is the first foreign organization to provide emergency medical assistance to families affected by the fatal COVID-19 outbreak in northern Italy,” he said.
The International Christian Relief Organization has deployed its emergency hospital and more than 60 crisis reaction specialists, adding respiratory therapists, doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, water and sanitation specialists and other staff, to settle outdoors in Milan, Italy. The coronavirus pandemic has exceeded local medical capacity,” he added.
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As of Tuesday night, Italy had the current number of coronavirus cases with 31506 and the current number of deaths, with 2503.
Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News contributed to the report.