On July 11, the official account of the Southern Theater of Operations issued a document disclosing that on July 10, at a military port in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, the hospital ship "Silk Road Ark" of the Southern Theater Navy unmoored and set sail to the southwest desert and various islands and reefs off the coast of South China to start the first medical service since it entered the list.
Global Network issued an article saying that this is the first official disclosure of relevant information about the "Silk Road Ark", and it also shows that China's second 10,000-ton hospital ship has been officially listed and has the ability to perform tasks.
Four medical forces boarded the ship
The "Silk Road Ark" is the second 10,000-ton ocean-going hospital ship independently designed and built by the mainland. It is mainly responsible for the medical rescue and evacuation of the wounded at sea in wartime, patrolling for the residents of islands and reefs and officers and soldiers in peacetime, and carrying out tasks such as international humanitarian medical services, emergency medical rescue for major disasters, and foreign military medical exchanges and cooperation.
CCTV News disclosed that the destinations of the "Silk Road Ark" hospital ship included the Pole Islands, Fiery Cross Reef, Woody Island and other southwestern sands and South China coastal islands and reefs. The "Silk Road Ark" will carry medical team members, cultural backbones, and legal experts on this trip, and will carry out medical patrols according to the established route, and simultaneously carry out marine casualty treatment drills and afterloading business assistance. Among them, the medical force carrying out the mission is mainly the First Navy Hospital of the Southern Theater, and the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, the General Hospital of the Southern Theater, and the Naval Medical University have also dispatched health forces to carry out diagnosis and treatment services on board.
During this visit, the hospital has 14 clinical departments, including orthopedics, general surgery, dermatology, and gastroenterology, which can carry out 8 surgeries at the same time and meet the needs of more than 300 injured and sick patients for hospitalization. During this period, the hospital ship will provide outpatient services, surgery, gastrointestinal endoscopy, and other medical services for officers and men on the islands and reefs, and assist in carrying out services such as overhaul of medical equipment, training of key health personnel, prevention of common and frequent diseases, lectures on treatment methods, and health examinations.
Subordinate to the Southern Theater of Operations
The "Peace Ark" is the first standard ocean-going hospital ship independently designed and built by the mainland, and the world's first hospital ship specially designed and manufactured for maritime medical rescue, and was listed in 2008. The "Silk Road Ark" is the second 10,000-ton ocean-going hospital ship independently designed and built by the mainland.
△ "Peace Ark".
The two hospital ships were not equipped with missiles, naval guns, or torpedoes, but were loaded with advanced medical facilities and skilled medical personnel, and were affectionately called "big white boats" by people at home and abroad. Compared with the hospital ship "Peace Ark", the "Silk Road Ark" has the same hull structure and area, but the full load displacement is larger and the endurance is stronger.
The "Silk Road Ark" hospital is divided into outpatient areas, epidemic prevention functional areas, injury detection and classification areas, surgical areas, rescue areas, wards and other medical areas, with reference to the standards of tertiary hospitals, equipped with complete medical equipment and good comprehensive support capabilities.
The global network issued an article disclosing that the hospital ships "Peace Ark" and "Silk Road Ark" belong to the Eastern Theater and the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army respectively. Zhang Junshe, a military expert, explained that this can better take into account the operational and combat readiness tasks in the north and south directions, and is also conducive to medical service work in the north and south directions in peacetime.
Regarding the "Silk Road Ark" going to the islands and reefs in the South China Sea to carry out tasks in its first public appearance, Zhang Junshe said that this is because the climate, living and medical conditions of the islands and reefs in the South China Sea are relatively poor, and it is not very convenient to see a doctor, and it is more necessary for hospital ships to provide medical services. At the same time, by carrying out missions on islands and reefs in the South China Sea, we can accumulate experience and lay the foundation for the "Silk Road Ark" to carry out medical rescue missions in the open sea in the future.
Zhengzhijun noted that, like the "Silk Road Ark", at present, the "Peace Ark" hospital ship is also on a mission. The report pointed out that the "Peace Ark", which is responsible for the "Harmony Mission-2024" mission, is on a seven-day goodwill visit to the new port of Victoria in Seychelles, Africa, and provides humanitarian medical services.
According to the data, since the "Peace Ark" was listed in 2008, with the "Harmony Mission" mission as the main carrier, it has gone overseas many times to carry out humanitarian medical services, visited 45 countries and regions, served more than 290,000 people, performed more than 1,700 surgeries, and sailed more than 290,000 nautical miles.
In response to the newly listed "Silk Road Ark" hospital ship, CCTV Military issued a document saying that the "Silk Road Ark" hospital ship will inherit the "Silk Road Spirit" and practice the "Belt and Road" initiative. (Political Knowledge)