A Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, is standing by in Baltimore for a possible trip to Haiti. Whats a hospital ship?
A ship that’s converted into a hospital, of course. The Comfort has all the facilities of a top-of-the-line hospital on land: 1,000 beds, 12 operating rooms, radiological services, a medical lab, a pharmacy, an intensive care ward, dental services, and a morgue. It’s also got a staff of more than 1,400.
