Evangelical humanitarian aid group Samaritan's Purse further extended their support to the war-torn area of Iraq by opening a new field hospital, just six miles outside the city of Mosul last week. The hospital now serves as the medical facility closest to the war zone and is projected to be open at least for the next six months.

Samaritan's Purse, headed by known evangelist Franklin Graham, have partnered with the Iraqi Health Ministry in creating the five-acre hospital that comes with two operating rooms, over 50 beds and an emergency room that has already catered to dozens of injured civilians who were caught in the crossfire.

"Right now we are just taking the most seriously injured — red and yellow patients is how they are described here. They are the most seriously injured patients that do not have a chance to make it to the next-closest hospital," hospital director Dr. Elliot Tenpenny told The Christian Post. "This work is difficult in many different ways. It's wearing and it's challenging. We need prayer individually and as a team in order to continue on striving," he added.

Tenpenny admits, however, that the hospital lacks the equipment necessary in handling delicate cases that require brain surgery.

Last week, the Samaritan's Purse, called for more medical practitioners to help man the hospital and attend to victims of gunfire and explosives, among others. "Christian medical personnel are urgently needed to staff the hospital for deployments of three weeks or longer." The group particularly needs more "trauma/general surgeons, anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians, ward physicians, operating room nurses, intensive care unit nurses, laboratory technicians, and scrub technicians."

At least half a million people, including 70,000 Christians, have reportedly been displaced in Mosul since the ISIS takeover in June 2014. The US-backed Iraqi military are continuously moving into the city and have recently liberated Mosul University, which is considered a key victory.