Red Cross emergency hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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A fully equipped field hospital opened to provide vital health care to thousands of people from Myanmar living in dire conditions in Cox’s Bazar.

The 60-bed hospital, the size of two football fields, has three wards, an operating theater, delivery suite with maternity ward, psychosocial support, an outpatient department and an isolation unit.

The hospital, which is run by the Norwegian and Finnish Red Cross, will be staffed by national medical personnel, including 15 doctors and 30 midwives from the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, and a 30-strong team of international staff, including Canadian Red Cross aid workers deployed to Bangladesh with the support from the Government of Canada.

Credits: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (IFRC)

Video Length: 165 seconds

Date Posted: December 07, 2017

Subtitles: Not Available

Tags: Emergencies and Disasters Worldwide Asia

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