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nitpicker

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Wed Dec 19, 2018, 05:32 AM Dec 2018

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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