Samaritan's Purse Deploys Emergency Field Hospitals to Care for COVID Patients in CA and NC
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- Thank you.
I want to ask you ofcourse about COVID-19,
the work that Samaritan's Purse
is doing to help the situation.
We know that a plane took offwith supplies this morning
for a field hospital in California.
Tell us about the needs
particularly in SouthernCalifornia right now
and how you're hoping to meet them.
- This was a request that came to me
through a large church in that area
along with the mayor of the community.
And so we are respondingas a result of the request.
This is Northern Los Angeles County,
place called Lancaster.
Our DC-8 is landing right nowat Palmdale Air Force Base.
It's on the ground as we speak
unloading the rest of the material.
We hope to have this 50 bed hospital open
and then we're workingwith Antelope Hospital,
I think it's called Antelope Valley,
Antelope Valley Hospitalthere in Lancaster
and we'll have this up andrunning I think by Thursday.
It'll have about 75 staff
and these are Samaritan's Purse staff
that will be out there.
We don't have government grants.
We don't have the state grants.
This is all being paid forby Christian men and women
across the country
that have supported Samaritan'sPurse and these hospitals
and we are there in the nameof the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so as a result of COVID,
we are gonna do all we can
to try to bring some relief to people,
to help bring healing to their bodies
and do it in Jesus' name.
- [Reporter] I can't imagine
anything more valuable right now.
Briefly, we just have about 30 seconds,
you're also setting up a fieldhospital in North Carolina.
Do you plan on more hospitals?
- [Graham] No, we're maxed out right now.
The problem is the staff.
We just don't haveenough staff to do this.
And so I think the two hospitals,
there's one in North Carolina,one in California right now.
We're maxed out.
- [Reporter] All right,well Reverend Graham,
thank you for what you're doing.
Thank you for your time right now.
- Thank you.