Special Report: Enduring Promise
USNS Comfort is on an 11-week medical support mission to Central and South America as part of U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative.
Working with health and government partners in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras, the embarked medical team is providing care on board and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems caused partly by an increase in cross-border migrants. The deployment reflects the United States’ enduring promise of friendship, partnership and solidarity with the Americas.
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Highlights
- USNS Comfort Begins Medical Site Set-up in Ecuador
- Video: USNS Comfort Transits the Panama Canal
- Preventive Healthcare: Comfort’s plan heading into first stop
- Video: USNS Comfort Conducts Mass Casualty Training Exercise
- USNS Comfort Departs for Medical Assistance Mission in South and Central America
USNS Comfort Departs for Medical Assistance Mission in South and Central America
U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 10, on an 11-week medical assistance mission to South and Central America where personnel will work closely with host-nation health and government partners in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Honduras.
USNS Comfort Conducts Mass Casualty Training Exercise
Doctors, nurses and other embarked medical personnel aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) conducted a mass casualty training exercise in preparation for visiting medical sites in Central and South America, Oct. 13.
Preventive Healthcare: Comfort’s Plan Heading into First Stop
Moving closer to providing care in the first country of an 11-week medical mission in support of Enduring Promise 2018, providers and corpsmen aboard hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) are eager to execute a major initiative — preventive health care.
USNS Comfort Transits the Panama Canal
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (Oct. 17, 2018) The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) transits the Panama Canal. (U.S. Navy video by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Keith Wilson/Released)
USNS Comfort Begins Medical Site Set-up in Ecuador
A team comprised of more than 900 personnel, embarked aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), commenced their first mission stop as part of U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Oct. 20.
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