On the invitation of host nations, Pacific Partnership’s mission companions will conduct tailor-made humanitarian civil motion preparedness actions in areas reminiscent of engineering, catastrophe response, public well being, and host nation outreach occasions.
This 12 months’s mission will function army personnel from Australia, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. The Pacific Partnership 24-1 mission has accomplished stops within the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and Pohnpei within the Federated States of Micronesia. Its last mission cease will likely be in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia.
“The USA is dedicated to the folks of Palau as we share deep ties and a long-standing friendship that spans a long time”, stated U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Palau, Joel Ehrendreich. “Pacific Partnership permits us to work shoulder-to-shoulder as buddies and companion nations to collectively develop our means to shortly reply to disasters or medical emergencies, if and when that involves the Indo-Pacific area.”
USNS Mercy will anchor off the state of Koror with a workforce of greater than 750 civilian crew members and uniformed army members. The ship has 12 totally geared up working rooms, 1,000 hospital beds, radiological companies, a dental clinic, a medical laboratory, a pharmacy, optometry amenities, a CT scanner, and an oxygen-producing plant.
Through the Palau mission cease, the Pacific Partnership workforce will conduct neighborhood well being engagements in Koror, Peleliu, and Babeldaob, which embody optometry (imaginative and prescient screenings, glasses and sun shades shelling out), dentistry (examinations, extractions, and fluoride therapies), and continual illness screening. These companies are free and open to the general public on a primary come, first serve foundation. The U.S. Embassy Koror Fb web page will present up to date data on the situation and instances of those neighborhood engagements.
Surgeons will even carry out operations onboard USNS Mercy. Sufferers will likely be pre-screened by way of a course of coordinated by way of the Palau Ministry of Well being and Human Providers and with native docs. Pacific Partnership medical suppliers will even conduct medical subspecialty care and coaching engagements at Belau Nationwide Hospital, working side-by-side with their Palauan medical colleagues, in addition to coaching in trauma, obstetric, and neonatal emergencies.
Moreover, the U.S. Pacific Partnership band, comprised of musicians from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band, the Royal Australian Navy and the Japanese Floor Self-Protection Pressure will carry out free concert events at Ernguul Park on Dec. twenty third, Surangel’s Purchasing Middle in Airai on Christmas Eve, and on the Previous Age Residence in Koror on December twenty eighth. There will even be host nation outreach occasions for Sailors to play sports activities with college students who’re on Christmas break from college. Specialists in humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction will conduct workshops for protected boating and catastrophe threat administration.
“When talking in regards to the Palau mission cease, U.S. Joint Area Marianas (JRM) Senior Army Official for the Republic of Palau, Rear Admiral Greg Huffman stated, “I want to categorical my honest appreciation to President Whipps, his workers and your complete Palau neighborhood for the assist they’ve offered this mission. The belief constructed by way of collaborative workout routines like Pacific Partnership strengthen our shared capability and deepen our particular strategic partnership.” Rear Admiral Huffman will attend the opening ceremony of Pacific Partnership 24-1 in Palau onboard USNS Mercy. “This mission fosters multilateral cooperation and emphasizes a multinational and whole-of-government strategy between our nations that continues to advertise stability, unity and prosperity in Palau and all through the area.”
Born out of the devastation introduced by the December 2004 tsunami that swept by way of elements of South and Southeast Asia, Pacific Partnership started as a military-led humanitarian response to one of many world’s most catastrophic pure disasters. Constructing on the success and goodwill of this operation, the U.S. helped spearhead the inaugural Pacific Partnership mission in 2006.
Pacific Partnership, now in its nineteenth iteration, is the most important annual multinational humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction preparedness mission carried out within the Indo-Pacific. Every year the mission workforce works collectively with host and companion nations to boost regional interoperability and catastrophe response capabilities, enhance safety and stability within the area, and foster new and enduring friendships within the Indo-Pacific.
For extra details about Pacific Partnership, go to www.fb.com/pacificpartnership, www.instagram.com/pacific_partnership/ or https://www.dvidshub.internet/function/PacificPartnership. For questions on Pacific Partnership engagements and band concert events, please contact U.S. Embassy Koror public affairs officer Jason Frohnmayer at FrohnmayerJO@state.gov.
