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	USNS Comfort Completes Medical Mission in Trinidad and Tobago
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            <div class="image-caption">The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is anchored off the coast of La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago as the ship prepares for a five-day medical mission. 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 2nd Class Morgan K. Nall)</div>
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            <div class="image-caption">U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Eng-Kulawy, a pediatrician assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), examines a young boy at a temporary medical treatment site in Cedros, Trinidad, Sept. 6, 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 medical systems strained by an increase in Venezuelan migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Morgan K. Nall)</div>
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    <div><b>By USNS Comfort Public Affairs</b> <span class="date">/ Published Sept. 16, 2019</span></div>
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    <p>LA BREA, Trinidad and Tobago (NNS) -- The hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) departed Trinidad and Tobago Sept. 11, following a six-day medical mission.</p>

<p>At a closing ceremony to commemorate the end of the mission in Trinidad and Tobago, senior Trinbagonian and U.S. officials spoke about the importance of the Comfort’s mission in the region.</p>

<p>“Thank you for choosing Trinidad and Tobago as one of your ports of call on this assignment and for bringing to us relief for the people of Trinidad and Tobago and our guests from Venezuela,” said Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley. “It is not every day that Americans come together, but we’ve demonstrated that we, the people of the Americas, can come together to work for the benefit of all our people.”</p>

<p>Lt. Gen. Michael Plehn, deputy commander of U.S. Southern Command, shared his reflections on the mission.  </p>

<p>“This visit marks the return of Comfort to the Caribbean and the first time Comfort has visited Trinidad and Tobago since 2007,” Plehn said at the ceremony. “This deployment is one of the many ways United States Southern Command is strengthening our relationship with Trinidad and Tobago. Each engagement is a part of our enduring promise to our region and to our neighbors, an enduring promise to be steadfast and to be a trusted partner.”</p>

<p>During Comfort’s mission, medical professionals from the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy, alongside eight partner nations and non-governmental organizations, provided care for more than 6,000 patients at two separate shore-based medical sites and performed more than 115 surgeries aboard the ship.</p>

<p>This marks Comfort's second visit to Trinidad and Tobago and its seventh to the region since 2007.</p>

<p>This mission stop is 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>

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