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US Mobile Hospitals Help Fight Coronavirus in Africa

Carla Babb

   As Africa braces for the next wave of the global coronavirus pandemic,
   three U.S.-donated mobile hospitals with medics trained by U.S. forces
   are helping Ghana, Senegal and Uganda respond to local outbreaks.

   The U.N.-standard level-2 hospitals are receiving patients and are each
   equipped with three or four ventilators, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)
   officials said in an exclusive VOA interview.

   Ghana, which has nearly 600 coronavirus cases, has deployed its
   hospital in the Accra suburbs and is using it to treat COVID-positive
   patients.

   For now, Senegal and Uganda have deployed their mobile hospitals for
   overflow, AFRICOM's deputy command surgeon Col. Krystal Murphy told
   VOA, taking in non-coronavirus patients to free up local hospital beds
   and local medical professionals so they can devote more of their
   resources to isolating and treating those with the virus.

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