U.S. Navy’s Haiti Rescue Mission Recalled as a Trust Builder a Decade Later

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U.S. Navy’s Haiti Rescue Mission Recalled as a Trust Builder a Decade Later
By Steve Sternberg, Assistant Managing Editor, Health Initiatives Jan. 17, 2020

Ten years ago this week, the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort sailed out of Baltimore Harbor under cold clear skies on a desperate mission to rescue Haiti earthquake survivors.

The earthquake, on January 12, 2010, struck just west of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, leveling scores of structures built of brittle concrete. As many as 230,000 people died and approximately 300,000 were injured.

The story of the Comfort's mission, as part of the broader U.S. military mission "Operation Unified Response," has implications that resonate today, two years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and two weeks into a spate of earthquakes on the island.

Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-01-17/us-navys-haiti-rescue-mission-recalled-as-a-trust-builder-a-decade-later