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Global Flying Hospitals (GFH) is the humanitarian medical charity that is the Logistics Resource to the world's humanitarian medical charities. It was founded in 2001 by Neill Newton, to provide medical care in the Developing World. The charity delivers resources, equipment and supplies and transports volunteer medical professionals into regions requiring services with specialised aircraft, including the Boeing 747 Teaching Hospital, to serve residents in major cities. GFH has begun operations using commercial aircraft while the Boeing 747 is being refurbished.〔http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200809/1221643525.html〕 GFH has a similar working model as Orbis International, the flying eye hospital using a refurbished DC10 aircraft. Global Flying Hospitals is refurbishing a small fleet of aircraft, including a Boeing 747, to cater for a wider range of illnesses and operations. The 747 is being converted into a high technology surgical teaching hospital, undergirded by Hercules C-130 aeroplanes for transport of medical field clinics. == Mission == * Providing Resources and Logistics to other humanitarian medical charities, to enable them to reach further and wider, and treat more people per mission. * Training of medical professionals in those countries to raise standards * Supplying of modular transportable field clinics and hospitals * Supply of medical equipment * Supply of medicines 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Flying Hospitals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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