Amman, The Foreign Ministry on Friday said that the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) – Arab Army has set up an equipped military field hospital in the earthquake hard-hit village of Pazarcik in the Turkish Kahramanmaras province.
The hospital includes 108 doctors, nurses and administrators, with a capacity of 24 beds, an operating room, laboratories, an intensive care room, in addition to a pharmacy, with various specialties.
This move was done in implementation of royal directives, to help families of the victims and the injured due to the Turkiye–Syria earthquake.
Four Royal Air Force aircrafts took off today carrying the field hospital which will be located in the village of Pazarcik in Kahramanmaras province, which was badly affected by the earthquake, the ministry’s spokesperson, Ambassador Sinan Majali said.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yousef Huneiti, the Ministry’s Secretary-General for Diplomatic Affairs and Expatriates, Ambassador Lina Al-Hadid, and Ambassador of Turkiye to Jordan, Erdem Ozan, bid farewell to the staff and personnel of the field hospital upon the departure of the aircrafts that took off today to Turkiye.
Source: Jordan News Agency