The UNITED STATE Navy healthcare facility ship USNS Mercy left her homeport at Naval Station San Diego today and also is currently in progress to Los Angeles on behalf of the country’s COVID-19 feedback initiative.

USNS Mercy left port with over 800 Navy clinical workers and also sustain team that will certainly aid deal with non-COVID-19 individuals aboard, and also alleviate neighborhood healthcare facilities onto land by supplying treatment consisting of basic surgical treatments, crucial treatment and also ward take care of grownups, the Navy stated in a declaration.

“This will allow local health professionals to focus on treating COVID-19 patients and for shore-based hospitals to use their Intensive Care Units and ventilators for those patients,” it stated.

Mercy is the initial of 2 Mercy- course healthcare facility ships run by the Navy’sMilitary Sealift Command It’s main objective is “to provide an afloat, mobile, acute surgical medical facility to the U.S. military that is flexible, capable and uniquely adaptable to support expeditionary warfare. Mercy’s secondary mission is to provide full hospital services to support U.S. disaster relief and humanitarian operations worldwide.”

The Mercy- course healthcare facility ships are furnished with 1,000 healthcare facility beds, 11 basic procedure collections, 15 individual wards and also 80 extensive treatment beds, according to the Navy’s internet site.

A staff of over 70 public service seafarers run and also browse the ship, tons and also off-load objective freight, aid with repair work to objective devices and also offer necessary solutions to maintain the “medical treatment facility (MTF)” up and also running. Mercy’s MTF is a gotten started team of clinical workers from the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and also Surgery, which is in charge of running and also preserving among the biggest injury centers in the United States.

“This global crisis demands whole of government response, and we are ready to support,” statedCapt John Rotruck, Mercy’s Military Treatment Facility commander. “Mercy brings a team of medical professionals, medical equipment, and supplies, all of which will act, in essence, as a ‘relief valve’ for local civilian hospitals in Los Angeles so that local health professionals can better focus on COVID-19 cases. We will use our agility and responsiveness as an afloat Medical Treatment Facility to do what the country asks, and bring relief where we are needed most.”

According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, since Monday there have actually been 536 verified instances of COVID-19 throughout all locations of LA County, consisting of 7 fatalities and also 90 hospital stays.

“We’ve seen a dramatic increase over the last 48 hours and sadly, we expect positive case counts to rise dramatically over the next three weeks,” stated Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County Public Health Director.

Statewide, California currently has 1,733 verified instances and also 27 fatalities.