PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – The American Embassy here has announced the arrival of the hospital ship USNS Comfort as part of the operation Sustainable Promise of the United States Navy.
The American medical ship is making a tour of the CaribbeanThe initiative aims to intensify U.S. engagement in the Caribbean region to strengthen the health pillar of the U.S./Caribbean 2020 strategy.
This stopover is a stage of the ship’s tour of the Caribbean and Latin America, which, over five months, carries out a mission of medical assistance. Medical teams from USNS Comfort will work alongside medical professionals from Haiti to provide services to adults and children.
In addition, basic surgical care will be provided on board the ship and medical professionals from other countries have embarked on the Comfort to join the effort to provide medical care to patients.
This will be the seventh mission of a hospital ship in the Caribbean since 2007 and the fifth in Haiti since the beginning of the decade.
The ship’s medical teams also provided care in other Caribbean nations, including Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis.
