USNS Comfort Conducts 55,465 Patient Treatments in First Month
Posted on: Friday, 13 July 2007, 15:08 CDT
DORAL, Fla., July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- USNS Comfort has accommodated 55,465 patient treatments in just the first of a four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and is on track to exceed the estimated 85,000 patients expected originally.
To date, Comfort's medical and veterinarian staff has conducted 182 surgeries, 5,717 dental procedures, dispensed 16,999 pharmaceuticals, issued 3,868 eyeglasses and treated 862 animals.
The ship's medical staff has also partnered with Project Hope - an international, nongovernmental heath organization - to conduct 423 training sessions for 10,240 students, including preventive medicine training for patients and health procedures training for medical providers.
Biomedical technicians from the Comfort have conducted 184 repairs on non- nuclear medical equipment for local health care facilities; and Navy civil engineers, known as Seabees, have conducted three construction and two restoration projects at local schools and health care facilities during the deployment.
"What has been accomplished during the early stages of this deployment reflects the unyielding commitment of the Comfort's crew to this mission and to the patients they encounter," said Col. Bill Costello, Director of Public Affairs at U.S. Southern Command. "We immensely are proud of what they have accomplished so far. They are affecting the lives of thousands of families in a very positive way and strengthening the friendship the U.S. enjoys with the countries they are visiting."
This hospital ship departed its home port at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., June 15 on a humanitarian assistance mission to 12 nations and has completed visits to Belize, Guatemala and Panama. Comfort is currently located in Panama City, Panama, where it re-supplying before continuing scheduled visits to Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guyana, Nicaragua, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The SOUTHCOM Web site, http://www.southcom.mil/comfort, will post updates of the USNS Comfort's humanitarian assistance mission throughout the deployment.
United States Southern Command
CONTACT: Mr. Jose Ruiz, Public Affairs Office of U.S. Southern Command,+1-305-437-1213, jose.ruiz@hq.southcom.mil
Web site: http://www.southcom.mil/http://www.southcom.mil/comfort
Source: PRNewswire
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