Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
BOONE, N.C. — Health care companies and nonprofit organizations have erected fully equipped field hospitals in North Carolina, in a pre-emptive attempt to treat residents injured by Hurricane Helene. But few patients had shown up Friday at the hospital set up in a large, white tent by Samaritan's Purse, an aid organization founded by Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, near the remote mountain towns of Newland and Linville, some 140 miles west of Greensboro.
We are a fully functioning operating suite.” The Samaritan's Purse facility was set up in the parking lot of the Charles A. Cannon, Jr Memorial Hospital in Linville. Sasha Thew, an emergency medical response specialist with Samaritan’s Purse, said the location was chosen to help out the hospital if needed. “We really set this up as an overflow to provide some surge capacity,' Thew said. 'This area was designated to be the search-and-rescue deposit area.
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