{"id":42841,"date":"2026-02-22T21:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:01:18","slug":"greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-ship-danish-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-ship-danish-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland does not need US hospital ship: Danish minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark&#8217;s defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he covets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it&#8217;s not as if there&#8217;s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland,&#8221; Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told Danish broadcaster DR.<\/p>\n<p>In Greenland as in Denmark access to healthcare is free. There are five regional hospitals across the vast Arctic island, with the Nuuk hospital serving patients from all over the territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenlandic local government signed an agreement with Copenhagen in early February to improve the treatment of Greenlandic patients in Danish hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Saturday posted on his social media platform Truth Social that &#8220;we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s on the way!!!&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said the US must control Greenland to ensure its security, though he has backed off earlier threats to seize it after striking a &#8220;framework&#8221; deal with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to ensure greater US influence.<\/p>\n<p>Lund Poulsen told DR he was not aware of the hospital ship&#8217;s possible arrival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump is constantly tweeting about Greenland. So this is undoubtedly an expression of the new normal that has taken hold in international politics,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, Denmark&#8217;s Arctic Command announced that it had evacuated a crew member of a US submarine off the coast of Nuuk after the sailor requested urgent medical attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark&#8217;s defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he covets. &#8220;The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42842,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841\/revisions\/42842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}