Samaritan’s Purse to create emergency field hospital in Ukraine

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Volunteers from North Carolina are headed overseas to help refugees who are fleeing Ukraine.

On Friday, more than 20 volunteers, including doctors, nurses and other support staff, with Boone-based Samaritan’s Purse loaded up a plane with supplies to take to Poland. From there, the supplies will go to Ukraine to set up an emergency field hospital.

Disaster response experts with Samaritan’s Purse have been on the ground in Poland, Romania and Moldavia assessing the needs since last week.

Samaritan’s Purse said the hospital will have the capacity to treat more than 100 people impacted by war each day. It has both an operating room and an intensive care unit.

“I think it’s awful. It makes me really sad to see that. It’s really awful and they definitely need our help,” resident Marchelle Filer told Channel 9′s Dave Faherty.

“(I) hate to see anybody suffer. I hate that the world is having to watch a war on TV. Of course, who wants that? Who wants to see anyone suffer?” resident David Powers said.

Channel 9 also learned that a 747 cargo plane will leave next week, transporting additional components for emergency field hospitals and equipment used to establish a medical clinic.

Those clinics will be sent to an area receiving an influx of refugees who have fled Ukraine because of the war.

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