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Silk Road Ark, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy hospital ship, left Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian Province for a humanitarian service mission to the South Pacific and Latin America.
Mission Harmony-2025 is the 11th iteration of Mission Harmony since 2010 and the first overseas mission for Silk Road Ark.
It is China’s 2nd domestically designed and constructed 10,000 tonne-class ocean-going hospital ship.
The 220-day mission is the longest of all the previous missions.
During this, the hospital ship will visit several countries, including Nauru, Fiji, Tonga, Mexico, Jamaica, Brazil, Barbados, Peru, Chile, and Papua New Guinea, to offer humanitarian medical services.
The ship has 14 clinical departments, 7 auxiliary diagnostic units which enable it to perform more than 60 kinds of medical procedures including general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics, gynaecology and more.
An onboard helicopter enhances its emergency medical rescue capabilities.
The mission team comprises medical support personnel from the PLA Southern Theater Command Navy, members from Joint Logistic Support Force, the Northern Theater Command Navy, and the Naval Medical University.
Source: Maritime Shipping News