US hospital ship brings care to poor in Haiti

The USNS Comfort has 1,000 beds and 100 surgeries will be performed


The 1,000-bed hospital ship USNS Comfort is on its fourth mission in Haiti since 2009 will treat patients until September 18, according to an article on the Yahoo News website.

The ship is equipped for general medicine, pediatrics, dentistry, ophthalmology and orthopedics. The personnel of the USNS Comfort will treat more than 600 people a day.

Medical personnel will conduct more than 100 surgeries onboard ship over the course of the mission.

"Each time the US Comfort arrives in Haiti, a ton of lives are saved, a ton of therapeutic procedures are performed, particularly surgical procedures that truly help to save lives," said Florence Duperval Guillaume, Haiti's health minister.

Read the article.

 

 



September 17, 2015


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