Floating Hospital USN "USNS Comfort" in Haiti

Floating Hospital USN "USNS Comfort" in Haiti came to the shores of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where on January 12 devastating earthquake struck. The total number of American troops in Haiti has reached 11,5 thousand people. Marines, as well as U.S. soldiers engaged in Haiti, delivery and distribution of water, food and medicine, victim assistance and protection of humanitarian goods.
January 20 in Haiti, a new earthquake, whose magnitude reached 6.1. That same day, authorities confirmed that mass graves had already buried 75 thousand victims of the earthquake. According to official estimates, only as a result of the disaster could have been killed from 50 thousand to several hundred thousand people.