USNS Comfort Finishing Humanitarian Deployment
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The Navy says the Baltimore-based hospital ship USNS Comfort is finishing up a five-month humanitarian mission to Central and South America and the Caribbean.
The Comfort is scheduled to stop in Norfolk on Friday before making its way back to Baltimore.
The ship's crew provided medical, dental, veterinary care and engineering support in nine countries while it was deployed. The Navy says the ship's crew treated more than 70,000 people both ashore and on board the Comfort's medical treatment facility.
The ship's final stop was in Haiti, which was also the site of its most recent deployment in support of international relief efforts following the devastating earthquake there in January 2010.
Comfort is scheduled to stay in Norfolk through Sept. 8.
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