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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Navy Lt. Sarah Fridley, a nurse assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), and Lystra Thomas, a nurse from the Grenada Ministry of Health, check a man’s vital signs at a temporary medical treatment site in St. George’s, Grenada, Sept. 20, 2019. 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 healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jacob Gleich)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Hope Blanding, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), paints a juvenile detention center in St. George's, Grenada, Sept. 19, 2019. 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 relive pressure on national healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Morgan K. Nall)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">The U.S. Navy 4th fleet band, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), delivers a performance to a Grenadian boys high school in St. George's, Grenada, Sept. 18, 2019. 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 healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Army photo by Specialist Dedrick Johnson)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Fengyee Zhou and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Monika Turner, pharmacists assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), discusses side effects and dosing on medication prescribed to a mother and daughter at a temporary medical treatment site in St. George’s, Grenada, Sept. 19, 2019. Comfort is working with health and government partners in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to provide care on the ship and at a temporary medical treatment site, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Maria G. Llanos)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Diana Dopp, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), paints a juvenile detention center in St. George's, Grenada, Sept. 19, 2019. 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 relive pressure on national healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Morgan K. Nall)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Army Capt. Jenny Munhofen, a veterinarian assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), explains the surgery she will be performing on a kitten to veterinary students during a subject matter expert exchange at the Grenada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in St. George's, Grenada, Sept. 19, 2019. 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 relive pressure on national healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jordan R. Bair)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Charles Baker, right, and U.S. Public Health Services Cmdr. Nathan Mork, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), conduct a tooth x-ray on a Grenadian woman at a temporary medical treatment site in St. George's, Grenada, Sept. 19, 2019. 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 healthcare systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Julio Martinez Martinez)</div>
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    <div><b>By Seaman Brendan Fitzgerald </b> <span class="date">/ Published Sept. 23, 2019</span></div>
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    <p>ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada (NNS) – The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Grenada following the completion of the ship’s seventh medical mission in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, Sept. 21.</p>

<p>The Comfort team is comprised of military and civilian personnel from U.S. and partner nations, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Peru, as well as several non-government organizations creating a dynamic team capable of delivering medical assistance, humanitarian assistance, subject matter exchanges, and partnership building.</p>

<p>During the visit, Comfort’s U.S. Navy and civilian engineers provided a Grenadian hospital with cylinders of oxygen that were critical to helping patients. The engineers also worked hand-in-hand with hospital staff to repair the facility’s oxygen generation plant that had been inoperable for approximately two years.</p>

<p>“An oxygen generation plant is significant to the care of many patients,” said Capt. Patrick Amersbach, commanding officer, Medical Treatment Facility. “This was something we could do to help support not only the hospital, but the people of Grenada.”</p>

<p>During Comfort’s six-day medical mission in St. George’s, 800 medical professionals of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S. Public Health Service alongside eight partner nations, provided care for 5,060 patients at two separate shore-based medical sites and performed 96 surgeries aboard the ship.</p>

<p>“Men and women from Grenada and the United States working together for the betterment of the people – I think that is the most touching part of this,” said Nickolas Steele, the Grenadian minister for health, social security and international business. “That is the enduring message of us working together.”</p>

<p>This marks the first Comfort visit to Grenada and the seventh to the region since 2007. At each of the upcoming missions, the embarked medical teams will provide care aboard the Comfort and at two land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants.</p>

<p>This deployment is a part of the U.S. Southern Command’s Enduring Promise initiative and reflects the United States’ ongoing commitment to friendship, partnership, and solidarity with partner nations in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.</p>

<p>For more information, visit www.facebook.com/NAVSOUS4THFLT, www.dvidshub.net/feature/comfort2019, and www.navy.mil.</p>

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