Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse Helps Hospital to Build a Field Hospital in NYC
Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse is pitching in to help build a hospital to combat the coronavirus response efforts in New York City. Graham — who is the president of Samaritan’s Purse — took to Twitter on Sunday…
Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse is pitching in to help build a hospital to combat the coronavirus response efforts in New York City.
Graham — who is the president of Samaritan’s Purse — took to Twitter on Sunday evening with a video offering a glimpse of the emergency field house being built in Central Park. The field hospital is supposed to be running by Tuesday.
The video captured images of the large white tents being erected to be transformed into a mobile hospital.
His tweet read, “Take a look as the Emergency Field Hospital goes up in Central Park. Please pray for those battling COVID-19.”
Check out the video below:
According to Fox News, the emergency field will boast a medical team of 70 doctors headed by Dr. Elliott Tenpenny — widely known for his disaster response efforts in Syria and West Africa during the previous Ebola outbreak.
Samaritan’s Purse is working with Mt. Sini Hospital, as well as other government agencies.
During an interview with the New York Post, Tenpenny shared his reaction to being stationed in New York City heading the pandemic medical team.
“This is honestly the most improbable place we’re ever been,” Tenpenny told the publication. “I never would have guessed we’d come to New York City with something like this. But New York never thought it would be dealing with a pandemic, either.”