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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A temporary hospital is on its way from North Carolina to Louisville, Mississippi, to help fill the gap after this week's tornado heavily damaged Winston County's only hospital, a nursing home and medical offices.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kirsti Clifford says the first 12 trucks carrying tents and equipment left Friday. She says six more trucks are being loaded.
Winston Medical Center interim administrator Paul Black says the county hospital will operate the facility, which will be set up on a four-acre paved site on Louisville's south end.
It includes an emergency room, surgery unit, inpatient beds, an X-ray machine and a lab.
A total of 35 people were killed in a two-day outbreak of twisters and other violent weather that pulverized homes from the Midwest to the Deep South.
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