Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark

Defence minister rebuffs US president's claim that Arctic islanders are not being taken care of'

Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark has said, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he wants to acquire.

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's not as if there's a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland," the country's defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told the Danish broadcaster DR on Sunday.