Hat-Trick Surgery Aboard U.S. Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort
Channel: U.S. Navy
Date: 01/09/2019

The hospital ship USNS Comfort recently completed a mission in Santa Maria, Columbia, but not before three siblings, each with cleft palates, visited the ship to have corrective surgery. Comfort is working with health and government partners in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to provide care on the ship and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems strained by an increase in Venezuelan migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kryzentia Richards)