The USNS Comfort And Its Role In Saving Lives In Haiti

Haiti's 'Floating Hospital': Tough Questions On USNS Comfort -- USA Today

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT — Yvelot Brianville, 24, lies quietly on a steel hospital gurney, a boyish naval officer in blue combat fatigues standing by his side.

The officer, Lt. Cmdr. Mill Etienne, 34, is Haitian, fluent in Creole. He is also a neurologist, called to the intensive-care ward of this floating U.S. Navy hospital just off the coast of Port-au-Prince to assess the impact of Haiti's earthquake on one man's spine.

He finds that Brianville is paralyzed from the chest down. When Etienne gently breaks the news, Brianville begins to cry.

"That's hard news for anybody," says Lt. Robyn Reynolds, a nurse, coming to console him.

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More News On The USNS Comfort

Comfort's ability to help stretched to limit -- Baltimore Sun
U.S. Ship Brings Comfort, Care to Quake Victims -- CBN News
Casualties And Limits Confront Navy Hospital Ship -- NPR
'Angel flights' take Haiti's dead home -- Baltimore Sun
Clinicians On Mission To Help Quake Victims -- ABC News
Aboard a US hospital ship, a steady stream of Haiti injured -- AFP
Taking Comfort: Hospital Ship Fills With Haiti Quake Victims -- Wall Street Journal

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