NewsWhore
04-23-2009, 06:30 PM
The naval medical ship USNS Comfort is in port in Santo Domingo, its second stop in the four-month Caribbean and Latin American medical mission, "Continuing Promise 2009". Doctors have come on land and according to reports are at the Damas Diplomaticas School in Los Tres Brazos to decide on the patients that will receive free surgery and medical treatment on board the ship. The Comfort is scheduled to be in the Dominican Republic until May 2.
The floating hospital is an 894-foot, 10-story-high ship with a crew of 900. Its first stop was Haiti, where medical staff treated 6,731 patients, performed 161 surgeries and filled 15,504 prescriptions. It will then travel to Antigua, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama before returning to its homeport in Baltimore.
The ship has 12 operating rooms, five dental rooms and 1,000 beds. On board are 20 surgeons, 75 nurses, 13 dentists and more than 50 physicians. The ship will provide care services onshore and aboard the Comfort while Navy Seabees will conduct a series of engineering improvements in selected communities, including the construction of a cold storage room for the Dr. Defillo Blood Bank and repairs at a school in the Los Tres Brazos area of Santo Domingo.
"The people and government of the United States have returned to the Dominican Republic to work alongside the people and professionals of this great nation to provide humanitarian assistance to those who most need it," said Roland Bullen, deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in the Dominican Republic.
"The Continuing Promise mission is a partnership with Caribbean nations and Latin America to bring medical, dental, veterinary and engineering services based on the country's request and working with the US Embassy and US Southern Command," said Navy Capt. Robert Lineberry, CP09 mission commander.
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The floating hospital is an 894-foot, 10-story-high ship with a crew of 900. Its first stop was Haiti, where medical staff treated 6,731 patients, performed 161 surgeries and filled 15,504 prescriptions. It will then travel to Antigua, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama before returning to its homeport in Baltimore.
The ship has 12 operating rooms, five dental rooms and 1,000 beds. On board are 20 surgeons, 75 nurses, 13 dentists and more than 50 physicians. The ship will provide care services onshore and aboard the Comfort while Navy Seabees will conduct a series of engineering improvements in selected communities, including the construction of a cold storage room for the Dr. Defillo Blood Bank and repairs at a school in the Los Tres Brazos area of Santo Domingo.
"The people and government of the United States have returned to the Dominican Republic to work alongside the people and professionals of this great nation to provide humanitarian assistance to those who most need it," said Roland Bullen, deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in the Dominican Republic.
"The Continuing Promise mission is a partnership with Caribbean nations and Latin America to bring medical, dental, veterinary and engineering services based on the country's request and working with the US Embassy and US Southern Command," said Navy Capt. Robert Lineberry, CP09 mission commander.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)