A United States Navy hospital ship is set to arrive in Legazpi City on June 27.
According to thew Philippine Navy, the USLS Marcy, a state-of-the-art US Navy ship equipped with advanced medical facility and equipment will arrive here for a joint humanitarian program of the US Navy and the Philippine Naval Forces in Southern Luzon from June 27 to July 11.
The US Navy hospital personnel has set for treatment 4,000 local patients for the scheduled medical mission, which will be done aboard the ship.
Navy officials also clarified that this is a humanitarian program, under the Pacific Partnership program, and is very much different from the Baliktaran Exercses which is a joint military exercise,” Alejandro said.
They added that the humanitarian program, would consist of a medical mission, civil-relation activity, training and subject matter exchange between the two naval forces, which is part of the Philippine-U.S. Mutual Defense Agreement.
The USLS Marcy hospital ship last visited the Philippines in 2013 where they extend humanitartian assistance to thousands of victims affected by super typhoon Yolanda.
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