By Stephanie Kelly and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) – In a hopeful image that captured the spirit of a national mobilization against the coronavirus, a Navy hospital ship docked in New York on Monday as the city pleaded for more help to stanch the deadly outbreak at its U.S....
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PHOTOS: USNS Comfort Arrives in New York Harbor
The USNS Comfort arrived in New York Harbor on Monday in support of the nation’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) response efforts. The U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command hospital ship, with over 1,000 hospital beds and hundreds of doctors, will serve as a referral hospital for patients not...
Mobile Hospitals: Trump To Send SD-Based Navy Ship Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic
- President Donald Trump agreed to send a massive Navy hospital ship to the Port of Los Angeles to deal with the area’s surge of coronavirus patients.
- The USNS Mercy, one of the Navy’s two 1,000-bed hospital ships, should arrive to the Port of Los Angeles next week, which is currently in Seattle.
- The president also approved California’s activation of the National Guard to help with distribution of supplies and other needed relief efforts.
- Trump is also revealing for the first time the number of...
http://mfame.guru/mobile-hospitals-trump-to-send-sd-based-navy-ship-amidst-coronavirus-pandemic/
USNS Comfort Heading to Colombia to Treat Venezuelan Refugees
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is anchored off the coast of Honduras as part of an 11-week medical support mission to Central and South America as part of U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative on Dec. 6, 2018. US Navy Photo
Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is excepted in June to start a five-month Caribbean deployment to provide humanitarian and medical assistance to the region, notable to refugees flooding into Colombia from neighboring Venezuela.
Comfort’s departure will mark the...
https://news.usni.org/2019/05/07/usns-comfort-heading-to-colombia-to-treat-venezuelan-refugees
Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Brings Care to Venezuela Migrants in Colombia
By Julia Symmes Cobb RIOHACHA, Colombia, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Even though five-year-old Kamila is used to getting blood drawn, she cried out when the needle pricked her arm, clinging to her mother for comfort in a classroom-turned-clinic in the northern Colombian city of Riohacha. Venezuelan Kamila...