NewsWhore
03-31-2009, 05:20 PM
The US Navy's hospital ship USNS Comfort will visit the Dominican Republic as part of a four-month humanitarian mission in Latin America and the Caribbean. Departing from Miami, the Comfort will visit Antigua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama. The 800-person crew includes military doctors from the United States, and invitees from Canada, Chile, Spain, El Salvador, France, the Netherlands and Nicaragua. During the mission medical, dental and veterinary care will be provided free of charge, and engineering support will be provided to communities without access to these services. The services to be provided include general surgery, ophthalmic evaluation and basic medical treatment, preventive medicine consultations, dental treatment and training in public health. The medical team is made up of professionals from the United States Public Health Service, dentistry students from the universities of South Carolina and Miami and NGOs such as Project Hope, Operation Smile, FACE and Food for the Poor. In 2007 the Comfort visited 12 countries in the region and its crew treated 98,000 people.
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