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

"The US president said he would dispatch the vessel in a social media post on Saturday, claiming that Greenlanders were not getting the healthcare they needed.

"Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, 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", Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "It`s on the way!!!" he added.

His offer, however, was politely rejected by Nuuk. "That will be `no thanks` from us," Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Greenlandic prime minister, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. "President Trump`s idea to send a US hospital ship here to Greenland has been duly noted. But we have a public health system where care is free for citizens", he said.

Trump has said repeatedly that the US needs to acquire Greenland for national security reasons, and appointed Landry as US special envoy to the vast, mineral-rich Arctic island in December".