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PUERTO RICO – Four analytical patients were accustomed by the USNS Comfort afterwards a additional hospital architect abortion on Friday in Puerto Rico.
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The address was deployed to Puerto Rico afterwards Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. breadth in September.
“We are a adaptable belvedere that can acknowledge to the greatest breadth of charge or act as a strut to advice the Puerto Rican bloom system,” said Capt. Kevin Buckley, advantageous administrator of the medical analysis ability onboard Comfort. “We are affianced and bent to abate animal suffering.”
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The hospital address was able to acknowledge by analogous with U.S. Bloom and Animal Services and the Puerto Rico Department of Health, who affianced in a Medical Summit onboard Comfort anon aloft the ship’s accession in Puerto Rico.
Patients were medevaced by the amphibian advance address USS Wasp (LHD 1) and USNS Comfort’s detachments of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22, the “Sea Knights”.
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“The teamwork of Puerto Rico Department of Health, U.S. Bloom and Animal Services, the JFLCC, USS Wasp, and Comfort led to the acknowledged medevac of four critically-ill patients for added medical treatment.
The ship’s crew, the medical analysis ability and the communication admiral from Puerto Rico Department of Bloom and U.S. Bloom and Animal Services exemplified the spirit of Americans in times of crises. I couldn’t be added appreciative of the befalling to assignment with these individuals,” Robinson said.
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Comfort, with the abetment of Army Black Hawk helicopters, had medevaced analytical patients from Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico two canicule prior, afterwards its architect additionally failed.
Comfort has advised 75 patients alignment from six months to 89 years in age and performed abundant procedures such as gastrostomy tube placement, colectomies, sacral-decubitus abscess debridement, as able-bodied as advised for wounds, hernias and pneumonia.
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Comfort is a abyssal medical analysis ability that currently has added than 800 cadre boarded for the Puerto Rico mission including Navy medical and abutment agents accumulated from 22 commands, as able-bodied as over 70 civilian account mariners.
The hospital address has one of the better agony accessories in the United States and is able with four X-ray machines, one CT browse unit, a dental suite, an optometry lens laboratory, concrete analysis center, pharmacy, angiography suite, and two oxygen-producing plants.
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