OTTAWA – Canadian Red Cross says its emergency field hospital in the Philippines is open for business.
The facility is located in front of a damaged local hospital in the city of Ormoc, on the west coast of the island of Leyte.
The hospital was flooded by the typhoon and its roof was destroyed.
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The Canadian facility is helping with surgery, medicine, maternal and child care and outpatient services.
Canadian Red Cross CEO Conrad Sauve says the hospital expects to handle 10 to 15 natural births and five or six caesareans every day as well as up to 300 outpatients.
The facility opens as Canadian military aid efforts continue on the island of Panay, farther to the west.
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