Comfort Arrives in El Salvador
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS070726-19
Release Date: 7/26/2007 12:00:00 PM
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brandon Shelander, USNS Comfort Public Affairs
PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- U.S. Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in El Salvador on July 25 to continue its four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean after caring for patients in Belize, Guatemala, Panama and Nicaragua.
The U.S. Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and Public Health Service, along with Canadian forces and non-government organizations like Project Hope, will work from various sites in El Salvador to provide its citizens with medical care to include adult medicine, surgeries, dental, pediatric, optometric and veterinary care.
“Comfort’s humanitarian mission has been a tremendous success so far and I know the men and women who work aboard Comfort will continue the outstanding job they’ve been doing by providing needed medical care to the people of El Salvador,” said Capt. Bob Kapcio, Comfort’s mission commander.
Comfort will remain in El Salvador for seven days and treat patients at Unidad de Salud Acajutla, Caseria Costa Brava School, and Delfina Rivas School. Service members from Comfort will also repair medical equipment at Hospital Sonsonate. Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 202 will renovate several of the work sites in El Salvador by repairing water systems, roofing, and re-building certain structures. Project Hope will train at Casa Comunal in Acajulta, El Salvador.
As of July 23, Comfort had more than 83,000 patient encounters, 2,800 veterinary service encounters. They have performed 280 surgeries since June 15.
Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean to provide medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.
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