The Barbados Defence Force (BDF) will this weekend deploy its field medical hospital to Jamaica for the first time in its history as part of relief efforts following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.
Speaking during a press conference at BDF headquarters, St Ann’s Fort, Garrison, St Michael, yesterday, Chief of Staff Brigadier Carlos Lovell described the mission, dubbed Operation Helping Hands, as historic and a deeply symbolic act of Caribbean unity that will see dozens of Barbadian and regional medical volunteers provide essential health care services to communities in western Jamaica, hardest hit by the hurricane.
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