This ship apears to be your friendly local hospital, visiting, your local island to supplement your medical first-aid detachment. So no high-end surgical or medical installations required as these cases would be deemed an emergency and the patient would be airlifted to Hainan or the mainland as soon as possible (making for a nice propaganda article in your next armed forces daily).
I don't think so it is fully equipped hospital equivalent to anything on land It might not have the highly specialized surgeon but they can get access to remote conference if it need be. Or transferred to the land hospital in one of the bigger island
CT, MR scan
Intensive care Room
Fully equipped LAB
Dental room
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy recently commissioned a newly developed hospital ship, which will serve
as a mobile medical force in the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea in missions including military and civilian medical support, international humanitarian aid and emergency rescue.
The Nanyi 13 ship, a new type of hospital ship independently developed by China, received a commissioning ceremony at a naval port in Yongshu Reef in the Nansha Islands on Monday, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday.
Its medical staff was dispatched from the
PLA Southern Theater Command Navy First Hospital, enabling the ship to set up key departments for testing, surgical clinic, medicine, burns, special treatment and psychological consulting.
It is also equipped with advanced, large medical equipment including computed tomography, digital radiography, color ultrasonic diagnosis, gastroscope and portable advanced life support device, with more than 100 beds and the capacity to host three large-scale surgeries at the same time, CCTV reported.
China has already built modern hospitals on Yongshu Reef, Zhubi Reef and Meiji Reef, but the sea region of the Nansha Islands is vast, so it used to require doctors from these reefs. With its commissioning, the Nanyi 13 will routinize visits across the region as a mobile medical force, filling the void of maritime medical rescue.
The ship's main missions will be medical support for military personnel and civilians on the islands and reefs of Nansha and those on ships in the region, international humanitarian aid, emergency rescue, personnel transport and scientific experiments, the report said.
The Nanyi 13 has a length of 109 meters, a width of 17 meters and a displacement of
more than 4,000 tons, and
can host a rescue helicopter, the CCTV report said.
Another Chinese hospital ship, the
Peace Ark, is 178 meters long, 24 meters wide and has a displacement of
more than 14,000 tons, chinanews.com reported in 2019.
A smaller displacement is more practical for the Nanyi 13 to operate in the Nansha Islands, Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the PLA Naval Military Studies Research Institute, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
The Nanyi 13 is designed to sail between and dock by islands and reefs, and a larger displacement could hinder its mobility in places where water is shallow, Zhang said.
