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Chinese Hospital Ship \u2018Silk Road Ark\u2019 Sails On Its Maiden Overseas Mission
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Silk Road Ark, the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy hospital ship, left Quanzhou in East China\u2019s Fujian Province for a humanitarian service mission to the South Pacific and Latin America.<\/p>\n

Mission Harmony-2025 is the 11th iteration of Mission Harmony since 2010 and the first overseas mission for Silk Road Ark.<\/p>\n

It is China\u2019s 2nd domestically designed and constructed 10,000 tonne-class ocean-going hospital ship.<\/p>\n

The 220-day mission is the longest of all the previous missions.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

An onboard helicopter enhances its emergency medical rescue capabilities.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chinese Hospital Ship \u2018Silk Road Ark\u2019 Sails On Its Maiden Overseas Mission Image Credits: Wikipedia Silk Road Ark, the Chinese People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy hospital ship, left Quanzhou in East China\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,196],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-insight","category-shipping-news","tag-marine-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}