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Navy hospital ship Comfort returns after treating Venezuelan migrants
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/18/navy-hospital-ship-comfort-returns-after-treating-venezuelan-migrants/Navy hospital ship Comfort returns after treating Venezuelan migrants
By: The Associated Press ? 11 hours ago
NORFOLK, Va. — A U.S. Navy hospital ship has returned home after its crew treated thousands of people in Central and South America, including migrants who fled crisis-wracked Venezuela. Kevin Buckley, the commanding officer for medical operations on the USNS Comfort, said Tuesday that 26,000 people were treated for anything from hernias to cataracts. Buckley spoke on a pier at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia where the Comfort is based.
The 11-week mission stopped in countries that included Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Those nations are home to hundreds of thousands of struggling Venezuelans.
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