The mobile hospital covers an area of approximately 2,000 square meters and will be able to operate autonomously for at least 15 days – In addition to providing first aid, it will also undertake surgeries
France will develop a field hospital and others 83 lifeguards in Turkey, where the death toll from Monday’s powerful earthquakes continues to rise, the fire service said today.
This mobile hospital will be able to function autonomously for at least 15 days and, in addition to providing first aid, will be able to undertake daily 10-15 surgical proceduresaccording to the statement issued by the fire department of Gars, in the south of France.
The Escrim Expeditionary Hospital covers an area of about 2,000 square meters meters and includes a delivery room, two operating theatres, a laboratory and a pharmacy. There is also a resuscitation unit and rooms for receiving and monitoring the injured. His mission to Turkey can be extended if deemed necessary.
In the framework of the aid that the European Union decided to send to Turkey, the French Directorate of Civil Protection, under the Ministry of the Interior, considered it appropriate to develop this field hospital which for “historical reasons” is kept in the district of Gar.
A scouting mission will leave Marseilles tomorrow, Wednesday, with the main objective of determining where it would be most convenient to set up the hospital. On Thursday or Friday, another 83 rescuers will leave for Turkey, among which will be the chief doctor Isabel Arnaud, a surgeon, two midwives, eight nurses and other staff.
Escrim was last deployed in Guyana in June 2020 and then in Mayotte in January 2021 to help local health authorities deal with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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