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Updated: 5:53 PM EST Feb 2, 2021 WXII12.com Web Staff Samaritan s Purse is getting ready to close its Emergency Field Hospital set up in Lenoir.Officials will discharge their final patients Wednesday morning and will hold a brief closing ceremony.The temporary field hospital was deployed to Lenoir on January 1st to help meet the overwhelming number of coronavirus cases that inundated western North Carolina hospitals.Since it opened on January 7, Samaritan s Purse medical personnel have cared for 78 patients at the 30-bed unit.A spokesperson told WXII 12 that coronavirus case numbers are now at a point where local healthcare systems will be able to meet the need.Samaritan s Purse also deployed emergency field hospitals in New York City, California, the Bahamas, and Italy. ....