What does the Comfort do?

A fishing boat is seen with the U.S. Navy’s hospital ship USNS Comfort anchored near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP)
U.S. soldiers carry an older Haitian woman to see a U.S. military doctor from the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort. (AP)
Doctors care for people of all ages, including kids. They bring comfort to them just like the name of their ship suggests. (AP)
This Haitian child is measured during a visit with a doctor. It is a lot like a checkup you might get on land. (AP)
Patients line up outside the Coast Guard Base to meet with doctors on board the USNS Comfort. (AP)

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What do you think most Navy ships do? This one carries doctors and nurses. It sails to places where poor people need help.

Doctors do surgery [ser-jer-ee]. Dentists fix teeth. Nurses give out pills.

The USNS Comfort sailed to Haiti. Doctors helped hundreds of people. All that help is free.

READ MORE: The U.S. Navy has two floating hospitals. Haiti was the last stop for the Comfort. The ship and its crew (900 people in all) had been helping people in Central and South America and the Caribbean for five months. Many of the countries where the ship stopped do not have enough doctors or hospitals to care for their people. The Comfort crew is a picture of how the “God of all comfort” helps us. Read 2 Corinthians 1:3-5.