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Comfort gets first patients from Haiti
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Jan 20, 2010 6:56:38 EST
Posted : Wednesday Jan 20, 2010 6:56:38 EST
BALTIMORE — Doctors aboard the hospital ship Comfort have begun treating their first patients injured in last week’s earthquake in Haiti.
The nearly 900-foot floating hospital is expected to arrive near Port-au-Prince by mid-morning Wednesday, but the ship was close enough Tuesday night to take aboard its first patients.
Two severely injured quake victims were flown to the ship from an aircraft carrier. The patients are a 20-year-old man suffering from a spinal fracture and bleeding in the brain and a 6-year-old boy with a fractured pelvis.
The Comfort left Baltimore on Saturday, carrying about 550 medical staff and about 60 civilian mariners. Another 225 medical staff and 125 support staff will join them in Haiti, said Lt. Cmdr. Heidi Lenzini of the U.S. Southern Command.
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