The USNS Comfort, with 1,000 patient beds and 12 operating rooms, was sent to New York City to help relieve pressure on the city’s overwhelmed hospitals. The US Navy's hospital ship The Comfort is the height of a 10-story building and gives free healthcare around the world. Boom-In 1994 USNS Comfort was sent to Haiti and in 2018 transported 400 people to GITMO! The 894 feet-long … That's about on par with similar benefit concerts for Haiti earthquake victims in 2010, which attracted 24.1 million people, and a Hurricane Katrina show seen by 22.1 million people in 2005. • Continuing Promise – From April - July 2009, USNS Comfort served as the platform for humanitarian and civic assistance missions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Panama, Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua. When the Navy hospital ship Comfort deployed to Haiti in 2010 following devastating earthquakes, media organizations broadcasting in the area ate up so much satellite bandwidth that the ship had to revert to paper processes and adjust its satellite communications for some ship-to-shore messaging. The ship has been to Haiti at least twice in recent years: once in 1994 to help process migrants who wanted to escape the unrest and again in 2010 after a magnitude 7 earthquake laid waste to the nation’s capital of Port-au-Prince. The Comfort has been to war zones and disasters alike. The COMFORT offered so- phisticated ... 0000605-201006010-00008.pdf The 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship, USNS Comfort, is being activated and readied for service in earthquake devastated Haiti. It has even been to New York before, when, in the days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Comfort provided aid and medical help largely for emergency medical workers. A program guide to the U.S. Navy 169 Appendix A Navy-Marine Corps Crisis Response and Combat Actions Dates Location/Operation/Mission U.S. Comfort has had a long career and served in war and peace around the world. During the mission, more than 100,000 patients were treated. Comfort departed Norfolk on Sept. 11, 1994, with a specially configured crew of 566 personnel. The Comfort will arrive in Port-au-Prince on November 4 and remain until November 13, 2019. It responded to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, and showed up off the coast of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The Embassy of the United States in Port-au-Prince announces the arrival in Haiti of the US hospital ship USNS Comfort from November 4 to 13, 2019. In collaboration with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population and the Haitian National Police, the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince announces the visit to Haiti of the U.S. hospital ship USNS Comfort. Comfort docked at Haiti on January 20th, 2010, one day earlier than expected.