Presenter: Commodore Bob Kapcio, Mission Commander; Captian Bruce Boynton, Commanding Officer, Medical Treatment Facility
August 07, 2007
R. WHITMAN: Good afternoon and welcome. I think most of you know that USNS Comfort is on a 120-day humanitarian assistance mission deployment to South America and the Caribbean and is providing medical assistance to patients in more than a dozen countries. It has been seeing patients in Belize, Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador, and now has arrived off the coast of Peru. While in Peru, U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and U.S. Public Health Service, as well as Canadian forces and nongovernmental organizations, such as Operation Smile and Project HOPE, will continue to be providing to the people of South America health care services, including adult and pediatric primary care, dental care, optometry and other services.
Today, to talk to us about what USNS Comfort has been doing and the types of humanitarian assistance they've been providing along the way, I have the three individuals that are on the screen.
More at http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4020
Also see COMFORT Humanitarian Mission website (courtesy of SOUTHCOM) at http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/factFiles.php?id=6
