EXCLUSIVE: Franklin Graham visits emergency hospital treating Venezuela earthquake victims

FIRST ON FOX: Rev. Franklin Graham visited a Samaritan's Purse emergency section infirmary successful Venezuela, wherever doctors and nurses are performing life-saving surgeries and praying pinch earthquake survivors who person endured unimaginable loss.

Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and nan Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, traveled pinch his daughter, Cissie Graham Lynch, to promote alleviation teams and comfortableness group who mislaid loved ones, homes and astir everything they owned.

Lynch, elder advisor and spokesperson for Samaritan's Purse and nan Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said 1 brushwood pinch a section pastor stayed pinch her passim nan visit.

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Franklin Graham and Cissie Graham Lynch believe pinch a Venezuelan family affected by nan June earthquakes during a Samaritan's Purse alleviation visit. (Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)

"Today, I saw some nan immense suffering and nan unthinkable spot of nan Venezuelan people," Lynch told Fox News Digital. "I was profoundly impacted by nan communicative of a pastor who mislaid respective members of his congregation successful nan earthquakes and is still serving his community. He said it each erstwhile he told us, 'I americium present to service and triumph souls for Christ.' I convey God for that religious pastor and for nan opportunity that we person to promote and support him arsenic he shares nan dream of Jesus Christ successful Venezuela."

"These group are surrounded by truthful overmuch decease and destruction. We want to bring nan ray of Jesus Christ into these places of pain," Franklin Graham told Fox News Digital.

"I'm thankful for our unthinkable teams who are doing conscionable that. They are providing aesculapian care, cleanable water, tents for shelter, and galore different emergency supplies," he continued. "As they do this successful Jesus' Name, they are comforting these families and praying pinch them during this clip of aggravated condolences and loss."

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Franklin Graham greets Samaritan's Purse aesculapian volunteers astatine nan organization's emergency section infirmary successful La Guaira, Venezuela. (Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)

At nan emergency section infirmary successful La Guaira, aesculapian teams person treated much than 2,500 patients. The infirmary includes 2 operating rooms, a drugstore and a laboratory, while doctors proceed performing orthopedic surgeries and treating infections and different conditions near untreated successful nan aftermath of nan disaster.

Two powerful earthquakes measuring magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck Venezuela conscionable 37 seconds isolated connected June 24, according to nan U.S. Geological Survey.

The earthquakes killed much than 5,000 group and injured much than 16,000, according to figures announced by Venezuelan authorities. La Guaira was among nan areas hardest hit.

More than 170 Samaritans Purse Disaster Assistance Response Team members are serving successful immoderate of nan hardest-hit areas, including La Guaira, Playa Grande and Caraballeda, while assistance is besides being delivered done religion partners successful Caracas.

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Franklin Graham and Cissie Graham Lynch sojourn families surviving successful impermanent shelters aft powerful earthquakes devastated parts of Venezuela. (Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)

Six Boeing 767 airlifts person carried 295 tons of alleviation supplies into nan country. Samaritan's Purse said its craft were nan first non-military flights to get successful Venezuela pursuing nan earthquakes.

More than 10,200 families person received emergency supplies, including tents, tarps, star lights, blankets, hygiene kits, cooking sets and Spanish Bibles.

The statement has besides installed 4 emergency session modules for section healthcare facilities, pinch a 5th expected to unfastened soon. The clinics are stocked pinch aesculapian supplies and generators to thief reconstruct healthcare successful communities devastated by nan earthquakes.

A collapsed flat building is seen aft powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela connected June 24, causing wide demolition and leaving thousands of families successful request of emergency assistance. (Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)

Two desalination units person besides produced much than 154,000 liters of cleanable water.

Samaritan's Purse said astir each diligent treated astatine its section infirmary has mislaid a family personnel aliases adjacent friend.

Among them was a begetter who injured his limb while rescuing different person's kid from a collapsed 14-story building.

"It was terrifying," he said. "I thought a level had crashed."

Doctors believe earlier performing room wrong a Samaritan's Purse emergency section infirmary treating patients injured successful Venezuela's devastating earthquakes. (Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse)

Another subsister was buried beneath nan rubble aft his flat building collapsed, falling six floors and remaining trapped for 2 days without food, h2o aliases ray earlier rescuers spent six hours pulling him to safety.

"I suffer everything, I don't person anything," he said. "A caregiver present made maine insubstantial shoes, I consciousness truthful happy for that."

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For nan survivor, nan compassion and dream he received proved conscionable arsenic meaningful arsenic nan aesculapian care.

"The doctors believe pinch me," he said. "That's beautiful erstwhile they get connected their knees and believe pinch me. I emotion that. Nobody do that for me."