3/15/2010
Comfort Returns to U.S. After Haiti Mission
NORFOLK, Va., March 14, 2010 – The Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort arrived at Naval Station Norfolk here yesterday after its seven-week deployment in Haiti supporting Operation Unified ResponseComfort left its Baltimore homeport in record time after receiving orders to make best speed to Haiti to provide medical aid to victims of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Jan. 12. The ship's crew admitted its first patients three days after deploying and, following 49 days of operations off the coast of Port-au-Prince, had provided care to 794 Haitians suffering from injuries ranging from crushed limbs to gangrenous wounds.
"What people did will affect medicine for a long time," said Navy Capt. James Ware, commanding officer of the medical treatment facility aboard Comfort. "People's experiences and the lessons they learned will affect the way we treat earthquake-related injuries in the future. I am very proud of the crew."
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