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Samaritan’s Purse Canada has high impact disaster response program. To respond to the covid-19 pandemic, Samaritan’s Purse has opened field hospitals in coronavirus outbreak “hotspots” in Italy and the US. Its field hospital unit includes 68 beds, of which 10 are intensive care beds with ventilators. Each Samaritan’s Purse field hospital has a 67-person team that includes doctors, nurses, and lab technicians from the US, the UK and Canada. 
On March 17, 2020, Samaritan’s Purse deployed a field hospital in Cremona, Lombardy to provide relief to Italian doctors and nurses.
On March 29, 2020, Samaritan’s Purse deployed a field hospital in Central Park in New York City. This supports New York City’s 20,330 hospital beds and 2,010 ICU beds. This increases New York City’s ICU capacity by 0.5%. Hospital officials in New York City state the greatest shortage is qualified medical staff and equipment, prominently ventilators.
Please note, Samaritan’s Purse is a Christian evangelical charity that https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/franklin-graham-uk-tour-anti-lgbt-islam-trump-evangelist-a9322786.html states strong beliefs on homosexuality and Islam to which https://www.christianpost.com/news/samaritans-purse-responds-accusation-operation-christmas-child-anti-muslim-proselytizing.html Samaritan’s Purse has responded.
Charity Intelligence has a https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/59-samaritan-s-purse-canada low star rating on Samaritan’s Purse as its largest ongoing program, Christmas boxes, shows low demonstrated impact. Donors can work around this by donating to Samaritan’s Purse disaster response for covid-19. Samaritan’s Purse has a strong track record in disaster response where we find high impact.
Charity Intelligence recommends donors support Samaritan’s Purse covid-19 response fund.
https://secure.samaritanspurse.ca/donation?pc=080676&sc=SD203DGAIT&_ga=2.237504064.1924894137.1585590031-1065553881.1585318290&_gac=1.212067872.1585590031.EAIaIQobChMI-rCckN_C6AIV0YZbCh0x2QIqEAAYASAAEgJinvD_BwE To donate to Samaritan’s Purse Covid-19 response
 
Other Charity Intelligence recommendations for the coronavirus response:
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/31-disaster-response/654-doctors-without-borders-coronavirus-response MSF – Doctors Without Borders
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/31-disaster-response/655-farm-radio Farm Radio International – Africa
 
More https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/31-disaster-response/649-coronavirus-intelligent-giving Charity Intelligence’s articles on the coronavirus
 
Learn more:
Eric Reguly, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-mash-italian-style-canadians-are-part-of-a-medical-team-learning/ “M*A*S*H, Italian-style: Canadians are part of a medical team learning to fight coronavirus in the field”, Globe and Mail, March 26, 2020
 

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Charity Intelligence is recommending donors support MSF for the coronavirus pandemic.

 
MSF (also known as Medecins Sans Frontiers and as Doctors Without Borders) is the fastest, most effective charity in global health emergencies. It has the best track record in fighting epidemics, including ebola in 2014 and the plague in 2017. Since the first days of coronavirus’s spread beyond China, MSF has been deployed. It is on the front lines supporting hospitals and public health systems in 22 countries. These countries include MSF’s international work in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as well as  European countries including Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Norway, Greece and Belgium supporting hospitals and providing relief to medical staff.
To donate to https://secure3.convio.net/msfcan/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app363b?df_id=2260&mfc_pref=T&2260.donation=form1&s_locale=en_CA&_gl=1*1chort4*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE1ODUzMjAyNjYuRUFJYUlRb2JDaE1JMmZ6bmt2SzY2QUlWV3pwUENoM3FYUUN0RUFFWUFTQUFFZ0t0cXZEX0J3RQ..&_ga=2.24255539.88955396.1585604068-2057358312.1584725520&_gac=1.195772952.1585320268.EAIaIQobChMI2fznkvK66AIVWzpPCh3qXQCtEAEYASAAEgKtqvD_BwE&NONCE_TOKEN=3D28BC7472F3D1D2E6145C3A30F86B10″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer MSF Canada
Countries with robust health systems, like Italy, have seen their hospitals and healthcare centres overwhelmed. Rapid response and support for those overwhelmed healthcare systems are crucial against a fast-moving viral outbreak like covid-19. We have also yet to see the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on fragile healthcare systems and populations living in developing countries. 
MSF Canada is a large international health charity. It is one of the 23 members of the international MSF Association. MSF organizes one of the world’s largest vaccine programs. Hopefully, this can be used shortly in getting covid-19 vaccines to the most vulnerable people in the world. 
MSF Canada is a Charity Intelligence Top Impact Charity for 2019, 2018 and 2017. We have consistently found high demonstrated impact on its programs. 
 
Learn more:
https://www.charityintelligence.ca/research-and-news/ci-views/31-disaster-response/649-coronavirus-intelligent-giving Charity Intelligence articles on coronavirus
https://www.msf.org/covid-19-depth MSF”s response to covid-19
Charity Intelligence’s report on https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/81-doctors-without-borders MSF Canada, August 19, 2019 
The Economist, ” https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/03/26/the-coronavirus-could-devastate-poor-countries The next calamity: Covid-19 threatens to devastate poor countries”, March 26, 2020
https://www.msf.org/no-profiteering-covid-19-drugs-and-vaccines-says-msf MSF calls for no patents or profiteering on covid-19 drugs and vaccines, March 27, 2020
One quick note, MSF’s policy is that it does not collect donations for one specific fund. It does not have a specific covid-19 fund. Donations will be unrestricted and available for all MSF’s work. This is not popular with some donors but gives MSF the best capabilities to respond.
Charity Intelligence recommends one-time donations rather than monthly donations for disaster responses.
 
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