{"id":304668,"date":"2026-02-22T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304668\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:40:08","slug":"greenland-does-not-need-trumps-great-hospital-boat-denmark-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/304668\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland does not need Trump\u2019s \u2018great hospital boat\u2019, Denmark says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/greenland\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greenland<\/a> does not need medical assistance from other countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/denmark\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denmark<\/a>&#8216;s defence minister said Sunday, after US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260202-trump-still-seeks-to-control-greenland-pm-warns\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">autonomous Danish territory that he covets<\/a>.<\/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.\u00a0<\/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;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s on the way!!!&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Watch<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/danish-app-helps-boycott-of-us-goods-and-recommends-eu-alternatives\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Danish app helps boycott of US goods and recommends EU alternatives<\/a><\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/nato\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NATO<\/a> Secretary General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/mark-rutte\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark Rutte<\/a> to ensure greater US influence.<\/p>\n<p>Lund Poulsen told DR he was not aware of the hospital ship&#8217;s possible arrival.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0<\/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. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark&#8216;s defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,54,63,5330,163,521,85,46,546],"class_list":{"0":"post-304668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-greenland","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-public-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}