USNS Comfort in service of Haitian

The hospital ship Comfort will leave its home port in Baltimore early Saturday to arrive in Haiti Thursday, delivering medical and surgical services

(live-PR.com) - US despatched the hospital ship, USNS Comfort to the stricken Haitians in the Caribbean country.Haitians who are without medical help, food, water, blankets, and power.Painkillers, syringes, sterile bandages, sutures, gloves, masks, and as many more doctors and surgeons as possible are needed in Haiti to cope with Tuesday's calamitous earthquake.The list of medical needs seems endless for the emergency health professionals working around the clock to treat innumerable injuries.

“This is a moment when we feel we can have a huge impact,” along with other military medical providers already on the ground, as well as those from nongovernmental organizations and the international community, the ship's captain, Navy Capt. James Ware, said Friday. “Our hope is to work with those individuals, side by side, to truly help the people of Haiti.”

The hulking hospital ship, three football fields long and one wide, has 250 hospital beds and a 550-person medical team that includes trauma surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, head and neck surgeons, eye surgeons and obstetricians and gynecologists.

The team will also include medical professionals from the Navy, Army, Air Force and U.S. Public Health Service, as well as nongovernmental organizations.

Ware said he expects his staff to initially see about 500 patients a day when it arrives in Haiti, working up to 750 or more, and to conduct 20 to 25 surgical procedures a day.Haitinewsnet


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