Photo By Chief Master Sgt. Raymond Sarracino | MIAMI -- USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), one of two hospital ships in the U.S. Navy’s fleet,...... read more read more
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By Jose Ruiz
U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs
MIAMI -- USNS Comfort (T-AH-20), one of two hospital ships in the U.S. Navy’s fleet, visited the port of Miami for the Easter weekend.
The ship was on its only U.S. port call prior to its scheduled departure Tuesday for a mission to 11 countries in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America through October in support of Continuing Promise 2015 (CP-15), a humanitarian assistance training mission, with a crew of approximately 1,000 military and civilian medical, engineering, veterinary, logistics and marine personnel.
During the six-month mission, Comfort’s crew will visit, Belize, Colombia, Dominica, the Dominican Republic , El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and Panama; where they will provide health care, complete community-assistance projects, and work alongside host-nation counterparts to strengthen disaster preparedness capabilities in the region.
USNS Comfort’s shipboard hospital, the Military Treatment Facility (MTF), is configured with specialized medical equipment and staffed by a multi-specialty medical team of uniformed and civilian health-care providers to offer a range of services ashore as well as on board the ship.
The health-care team aboard the ship is comprised of specialized medical personnel from the U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, U.S. Public Health Service and various NGOs, and is expected to see more than 100,000 patients and perform hundreds of surgeries during the mission.
Subject matter experts on USNS Comfort are scheduled to conduct more than 400 exchanges, covering medical, veterinary, engineering and environmental health topics. The mission’s engineers will conduct more than 20 engineering and building-site projects.
CP-15 includes more than 50 non-governmental organizations, a marked increase in global participation compared to previous missions.
This is the fourth time USNS Comfort has participated in Continuing Promise. USNS COMFORT last deployed for Continuing Promise in 2011.
In 2010, the hospital ship deployed to Haiti to support of Operation Unified Response. During the operation, Comfort’s medical personnel performed 843 surgeries and provided critical care to 871 victims of the devastating, 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck near Port-au-Prince Jan. 12.
| Date Taken: | 04.04.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 04.06.2015 16:54 |
| Story ID: | 159240 |
| Location: | MIAMI, FL, US |
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