COPENHAGEN/NUUK: Denmark and its territory Greenland, on Sunday (Feb 22) rejected Donald Trump’s provide to ship a naval hospital ship to the Arctic island coveted by the US leader.
A day earlier, Trump mentioned he was sending “a fantastic hospital boat to Greenland to deal with the various people who find themselves sick, and never being taken care of there”.
However Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who heads the autonomous territory’s authorities, wrote on his Fb web page: “That might be ‘no thanks’ from us.”
“President Trump’s thought to ship a US hospital ship right here to Greenland has been duly famous. However we now have a public well being system the place care is free for residents,” he mentioned.
“This isn’t the case in the USA, the place going to the physician prices cash.”
Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen likewise instructed Danish broadcaster DR: “The Greenlandic inhabitants receives the healthcare it wants. They obtain it both in Greenland, or, in the event that they require specialised remedy, they obtain it in Denmark.”
He added: “It isn’t as if there is a want for a particular healthcare initiative in Greenland.”
On the day that Trump made his proposal, Danish forces evacuated a crew member of a US submarine off the coast of Greenland’s capital Nuuk, after the sailor requested pressing medical consideration.
Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command mentioned in a put up on Fb that the crew member was flown to a hospital in Nuuk after an unspecified medical emergency on board the vessel.
