Red Cross emergency hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
- Video Title:
- Red Cross emergency hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
- Video Length:
- 165 seconds
- Date Posted:
- December 07, 2017
- Credits:
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (IFRC)
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- Subtitles:
- Not Available
- Video Summary:
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.