Opinion | Christian Relief Comes to Central Park

From WSJopinion: An evangelical Christian organization used to sending medical teams to faraway countries has now set up a field hospital in New York’s Central Park, writes NicoleReneeAult

Samaritan’s Purse has sent medical teams to Haiti, Bangladesh, Iraq—and now to New York’s Central Park, where it has set up a field hospital across Fifth Avenue from the affluent Upper East Side.

The nonprofit relief organization is providing and funding 68 beds and several dozen personnel to assist Covid-19 patients from Mount Sinai Health System hospitals around the city. The effort will “allow us to expand inpatient and critical care capacity,” according to a statement from Mount Sinai’s chairman of emergency medicine.

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