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Volunteers assemble mobile hospital in Mississippi disaster

Disaster relief volunteers are setting up a mobile disaster hospital in tornado-ravaged area


North Carolina disaster relief volunteers are setting up a mobile disaster hospital in tornado-ravaged Louisville, Miss., according to an article on the BRNow website.

The temporary mobile hospital is expected to serve the area for a year or more. This was the first time the team had actually assembled the hospital at the site of a disaster. 

After an April 29 tornado left 10 dead, a hospital serving the more than 19,000 county residents in this rural area was left in ruins — but a large flat concrete foundation was left.

While a ramp to the concrete slab was built, the North Carolina volunteers assembled five hard-sided temporary, air-conditioned buildings to house segments of the Mississippi emergency response staff and the emergency medical service personnel. 

Read the article.

 

 



May 28, 2014


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