In response to the overflow of coronavirus patients and NYC’s overflowing healthcare resources, hospital tents are being set up in Central Park’s East Meadow, located near Fifth Avenue and 99th Street.
Samaritan’s Purse, a humanitarian aid organization lead by Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical pastor Billy Graham, has trucked in four trailers of tents, beds, PPE and ventilators.
Work is taking place as we speak, and they are aiming to open the hospital in Central Park on Tuesday morning.
Here are some images courtesy of @onestopshoppee_ on Instagram:
The field hospital will be treating patients transferred from Mount Sinai’s hospital network.
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Medical professionals with expertise in infectious diseases will be working on a rotating basis, and will be lead by Dr. Elliott Tenpenny.
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″] “People are dying from the coronavirus, hospitals are out of beds, and the medical staff are overwhelmed. We are deploying our Emergency Field Hospital to New York to help carry this burden. This is what Samaritan’s Purse does—we respond in the middle of crises to help people in Jesus’ Name. Please pray for our teams and for everyone around the world affected by the virus.”– Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse
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Samaritan’s Purse has been running a similar medical facility outside of Milan, Italy, since March 20th. The 14-tent unit is set up adjacent to the Cremona Hospital in order to treat an overflow of coronavirus patients. Their planes made two airlifts to Italy in order to deliver supplies to the hospital.
Featured images c/o Samaritan’s Purse.
As a reminder, the Graham family has been virulently homophobic in their preachings. Has that notion shifted so that anyone who needs medical care can get it in their tents, and know that they’ll be treated with respect?
I believe so–Christians lean towards hating “sin”-loving sinners-without sin, cast the first stone-cannot be done-for all have sinned
Just what I was thinking, Julia. I hate to be cynical but was wondering if they’d be excluding women who’ve had abortions.
Billy Graham made some anti-Semitic remarks when he was counseling President Richard Nixon in 1972. He later apologized when he was heard speaking to Nixon about the immorality of Jewish Hollywood moguls while Nixon spoke of Jews owning newspapers and other media. That conversation was on audiotapes released by the National Archives in 2002.
Billy Graham typified long-held Evangelical theology (and that of some other Protestant denominations and sects), broadly stated, that the Jews will convert at “end times” and disappear as Jews, and that Israel must be supported until then. It also typifies the response of his son Franklin Graham in his book Through My Father’s Eyes that his father didn’t recall those remarks even when he heard himself on the tapes, but apologized anyway.
So, here is the son of Billy Graham at Mount Sinai! There is some sort of strange ambiguity here.