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Lebanon. The Italian field hospital of San Giusto packs up

(B2) The San Giusto ship left Beirut in Lebanon on Thursday (September 24) indicates the italian navy after 30 days on site.

The ship had left Brindisi on August 18 to bring relief to the Lebanese after theexplosion on the port of August 4, under the command of Captain Aniello Cuciniello. The task force 'EMERGENZA CEDRI' has set up a field hospital equipped with a radiological module, a biological laboratory for the analysis and taking of Covid-19 samples, an intensive care module, a surgical module with two operating beds, a pharmacy, a pediatric module and a few outpatient and sterilization rooms.

Two Air Force C-130J planes had also been requisitioned to transport specialists and humanitarian aid.

(NGV)

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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