Emergency Field Hospital Airlifted
to Besieged Ukraine
The world continues to be horrified by images of death and destruction coming out of Ukraine, a catastrophe we have not witnessed in Europe since the Second World War. The needs are desperate and last week we airlifted an Emergency Field Hospital on our DC-8 cargo plane.
Donate NowThe hospital is currently being set up in Ukraine. The nearly 60-bed facility will have an ICU, two operating theaters, with capacity for 14 major surgeries or 30 minor surgeries each day, and an emergency room that can handle 100 patients daily. Additional equipment will be flown to Poland and taken into Ukraine later this week.
Members of our Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)—including doctors, nurses, and logistics and set-up personnel—arrived with the hospital and have joined our staff already helping some of the more than 1.5 million refugees who’ve fled the carnage to neighboring countries. We also will send a smaller medical clinic to Moldova on an additional flight this week. Throughout this response we will continue to work with our more than 3,200 church partners in Ukraine, many of which were distributing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes as conflict erupted.
The most important thing we can do is pray. Please pray earnestly for the people of Ukraine and that God will soon bring peace. Now is the time to remember what Jesus told us: "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33).
Sincerely,
Franklin Graham
President, Samaritan's Purse
Franklin Graham, President
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