The Mental Health Mission Aboard the USNS Comfort During Humanitarian Operations in Puerto Rico

What is it about?

The experience aboard the USNS Comfort in Puerto Rico highlights the importance of hospital-based psychiatric services in humanitarian response missions. In addition to providing evaluation and treatment of traumatic reactions, the USNS Comfort’s mental health team provided comprehensive treatment for patients with severe and persistent mental illnesses, whose access to treatment was severely disrupted. The provision of a robust mental health team provided crucial services to the citizens of Puerto Rico while the damage to their medical infrastructure is being repaired.

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