Emergency Field Hospital

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  • Jamaica 2025

    At maximum capacity, the Emergency Field Hospital staff can treat more than 200 patients and perform 15 to 30 surgeries daily—functioning as a full hospital.

  • Jamaica 2025

    Doctors and nurses at the Emergency Field Hospital in Jamaica saw more than 2,800 patients come through the Emergency Room and completed more than 100 surgeries in a little over one month.

  • Jamaica 2025

    Samaritan’s Purse opened an Emergency Field Hospital in Black River, Jamaica, to serve those without access to medical care after Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the island and destroyed their local hospital.

  • Jamaica 2025

    A doctor serving with Samaritan’s Purse cares for one of our most fragile patients to be admitted to the hospital, a baby with congenital heart failure.

  • Sudan 2024

    Samaritan’s Purse opened an Emergency Field Hospital in southeast Sudan on Christmas Day to provide critical care to those displaced by the civil war.

  • Sudan 2024

    Since its inaugural deployment to Ecuador in 2016, Samaritan's Purse has cared for tens of thousands of patients at 24 Emergency Field Hospitals and outpatient clinics around the world.

  • Sudan 2024

    A specially trained team deploys with the Emergency Field Hospital to perform setup, with the goal to have the hospital operational within 24 hours of arriving on-site.

  • Sudan 2024

    A deployed hospital is staffed with 20 to 80 medical personnel, including highly-skilled physicians, nurses, surgeons, lab technicians, anesthesiologists, pharmacists, water and sanitation engineers, and other support-services professionals.

  • Sudan 2024

    Disaster response specialists meet the physical needs of families impacted by the conflict in Sudan while reminding them that God loves them and they are not alone or forgotten.

  • Sudan 2024

    The Emergency Field Hospital in Sudan quickly became a lifeline for families facing limited access to healthcare. Hundreds of patients were treated in its first week of operating.

  • Grenada 2024

    The Emergency Field Hospital is mobile and ready to deploy at a moment's notice to provide emergency medical relief in disaster-stricken areas where medical infrastructure is damaged, overwhelmed, or nonexistent.

  • Grenada 2024

    Samaritan’s Purse treated over 1,000 patients across multiple disaster-stricken islands following Hurricane Beryl.

  • Antakya, Turkey 2023

    Samaritan’s Purse doctors treated thousands of patients after back-to-back earthquakes in Turkey and Syria killed over 50,000 people and injured tens of thousands more.

  • Antakya, Turkey 2023

    A patient exchanges warm smiles with a Samaritan’s Purse nurse after receiving treatment for her injured legs in the Emergency Field Hospital.

  • Antakya, Turkey 2023

    An orthopedic surgeon serving with Samaritan’s Purse carefully examines an elderly women’s fractured arm.

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