10,000-ton hospital ship on maiden medical visit at sea
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The Chinese hospital ship "Peace Ark" performed medical services at sea in Zhanjiang of Guangdong on Nov. 12, 2009. This is the first medical visit for a 10,000-ton hospital ship of Chinese navy. The ship provides medical services for local inhabitants and soldiers stationed there.
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China's hospital ship "Peace Ark" |
"Peace Ark" is the world's only professional hospital ship of 10,000-ton class. It represents a new generation of a maritime emergency medical support platform independently designed and developed by China. Its medical equipments equal that of hospitals on land.
Amid war, it can provide initial treatments as well as some special treatments for injured soldiers and medical support for fleet forces. Normally, it carries out medical and rescue exercises at sea, provides medical services for fleets and troops stationed at remote islets, and performs humanitarian rescue and relief missions at sea.
The commander of "Peace Ark", Yin Yuehao, said the medical tour starting from Wusong Port of Shanghai on Oct. 20 would last 32 days.
The hospital ship provides medical services for not only the army, navy, air force, frontier police force, and armed police force stationed at the coastal islands, but also for fishery administration staff on duty stationed at the Xisha Islands and Nansha Islands, fishermen, and residents living on coastal islands that have long been in want of medical services and medicine.
Medical staff on the hospital ship will use the equipment on the ship to perform safe surgical operations for patients. Even if they come across difficult or special cases, they can use the distance consultancy system of the hospital ship to get technical support from an expert group of the Navy General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Translated by Zhang Ming'ai
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