KIRKLAND, Wash., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- AmeriCares, a nonprofit
international relief organization, delivered a second deployable field
hospital to China's devastated Sichuan Province, where health concerns remain
acute following last month's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake. This second
field hospital will be delivered to Wenchuan County, which was the epicenter
of the 7.8 earthquake. The new hospital will be located on the site of the
former Xuankou Township Hospital, which received severe structural damage.
Currently, medical personnel are working out of a collection of tents on the
site, seeing anywhere between 80 - 200 patients a day.
The new hospital will include operating and emergency rooms, a laboratory,
radiology unit and a patient ward. AmeriCares is working with local Chinese
authorities to make the hospital fully operational by the middle of July. The
Xuankou field hospital follows the construction of an earlier field hospital
in Qingchuan, an area where 250,000 residents lost their only hospital after
the initial earthquake and major aftershocks. The field hospital in Qingchuan
is fully operational.
About BLU-MED Response Systems
BLU-MED Response Systems is America's Leader in Deployable Medical
Facilities. BLU-MED provides turn-key, portable solutions for deployable
medical surge facilities, alternate command centers, temporary housing and
base camp requirements. The company offers a full range of medical equipment
packages and configuration options. BLU-MED support services include vendor
managed inventory options, field deployment, and training & exercise services.
BLU-MED facilities can be sized and customized to meet a variety of state
and local emergency management and public health response requirements.
Modular options include medical surge wards, patient treatment,
decontamination, immunization/drug distribution, negative pressure isolation,
and field laboratory units. BLU-MED Response Systems is a division of Alaska
Structures, Inc. For more information see http://www.blu-med.com.
About AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a private, nonprofit international disaster relief and
humanitarian aid organization, which delivers medicines, medical supplies and
aid to people in crisis around the world. Since it was established in 1982,
AmeriCares has distributed more than $7.5 billion in humanitarian aid to 137
countries. For more information, log onto http://www.americares.org.
Contact:
Gerrit Boyle
360-318-9913
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