For our Geo Quiz, we wanted you to name the port in El Salvador where a US Navy hospital ship is docked today. The ship is the USNS Comfort.
You might recall the Comfort was deployed to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Right now, though, the ship is on a four month humanitarian mission to Latin America.
Listen to our interview with Captain Bruce Boynton runs the hospital aboard the Comfort.
Where is it docked? Acajutla, El Salvador.
Acajutla is located at 13°35′24″N, 89°50′01″W on the Pacific Coast of Central America and is El Salvador's principle seaport.
From the United States Navy's website:
"Comfort will remain in El Salvador for seven days and treat patients at Unidad de Salud Acajutla, Caseria Costa Brava School, and Delfina Rivas School. Service members from Comfort will also repair medical equipment at Hospital Sonsonate. Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 202 will renovate several of the work sites in El Salvador by repairing water systems, roofing, and re-building certain structures. Project Hope will train at Casa Comunal in Acajulta, El Salvador.
As of July 23, Comfort had more than 83,000 patient encounters, 2,800 veterinary service encounters. They have performed 280 surgeries since June 15.
Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean to provide medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries."
