The arrival of Army Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) to Honiara, Solomon Islands, marks the following section of the Pacific Partnership 24-1 (PP 24-1) mission that may allow members, together with U.S. and Solomon islanders, to work collectively to reinforce catastrophe response capabilities and foster new and enduring friendships.
“The Pacific Partnership 24-1 mission within the Solomon Islands is essential because it fosters regional collaboration, strengthens ties, and enhances catastrophe response capabilities between us whereas highlighting our mutual dedication towards peace, safety and cooperation,” stated U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark A. Melson, Commander, Job Pressure 73 and govt a
gent for this 12 months’s mission. “It additionally offers a platform for shared information and sources, between the U.S. Navy and our companions, whereas constructing resilience, capability and interoperability within the occasion of an HA/DR state of affairs within the Indo-Pacific area.
On the invitation of host nations, the Pacific Partnership’s mission companions conduct tailor-made humanitarian civic motion preparedness actions in areas comparable to engineering, catastrophe response, public well being, and host nation outreach occasions.
As a part of the mission cease, Pacific Partnership will present tailor-made medical care specializing in surgical care, coaching for first responders, medical care, subject-matter exchanges, and neighborhood schooling at Honiara, Gizo and Auki. Medical personnel may even present help for the 2023 Pacific Video games, in Honiara.
The PP-24-1 mission within the Pacific Video games, specifically, the USNS Mercy was invited by host-nation management because of the success of the earlier Pacific Partnership 2022 mission cease in Honiara.
Engineering tasks will embrace renovations at Nationwide Referral Hospital (NRH), whereas specialists within the subject shared information exchanges with workouts masking HA/DR matters this previous September.
Moreover, the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band will carry out alongside Australian navy musicians in a wide range of neighborhood engagements.
“Pacific Partnership has a permanent relationship with the Solomon Islands that began in 2007, and being requested to return again and help the medical infrastructure of the Solomon Islands as they host the Pacific Video games demonstrates that continued dedication on either side,” stated U.S. Navy Capt. Brian Quin, mission commander, Pacific Partnership 24-1. “On behalf of my crew, we look ahead to deepening our partnership and cooperation the individuals of the Solomon Islands.”
USNS Mercy will function the mission platform and a mixed crew of civil service mariners and uniformed navy members make up the crew of Mercy, which might employees as much as 1,200 medical personnel.
The hospital ship has all of the capabilities present in fashionable hospitals, comparable to these within the NRH, and Gizo and Kilu’ufi hospitals, the place many PP 24-1 actions will happen.
The ship has 12 totally geared up working rooms, 1,000 hospital beds, radiological companies, a medical laboratory, a pharmacy, optometry services, a CT scanner and an oxygen-producing plant.
Pacific Partnership focuses on a number of traces of effort to assist construct resilience and host nation capability to help important humanitarian companies.
This 12 months’s mission may even function almost 1,500 personnel from allies and companion nations together with Australia, Chile, the UK, Japan, Germany, and New Zealand.
Born out of the devastation introduced by the December 2004 tsunami that swept by way of components 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 biggest annual multinational humanitarian help and catastrophe reduction preparedness mission performed within the Indo-Pacific. Annually the mission crew works collectively with host and companion nations to reinforce regional interoperability and catastrophe response capabilities, enhance safety and stability within the area, and foster new and enduring friendships within the Indo-Pacific.
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