The U.S. Navy hos­pi­tal ship USNS Com­fort will vis­it Trinidad and To­ba­go from Au­gust 5 to 11 as part of the Con­tin­u­ing Promise 2025 mis­sion. The ves­sel will be moored in Port-of-Spain.

Med­ical teams from the USNS Com­fort will work with the Min­istry of Health and lo­cal health pro­fes­sion­als to pro­vide free med­ical ser­vices from Au­gust 7 to 9 at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts in Port-of-Spain. Ser­vices will in­clude adult and pe­di­atric care, den­tal ser­vices, op­tom­e­try, phys­i­cal ther­a­py, and der­ma­tol­ogy.

Clin­ics will op­er­ate from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on a first-come, first-served ba­sis. No pre-reg­is­tra­tion is re­quired. Pa­tients are ad­vised to bring na­tion­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion if pos­si­ble. Each con­sul­ta­tion will ad­dress one med­ical is­sue per pa­tient. Pa­tients may re­turn for ad­di­tion­al con­sul­ta­tions.

Ba­sic sur­gi­cal care will be pro­vid­ed on board the USNS Com­fort for in­di­vid­u­als pre-se­lect­ed and screened by the Min­istry of Health from ex­ist­ing wait­ing lists. On­ly these pa­tients will re­ceive treat­ment aboard the ship.

The vis­it al­so in­cludes pro­fes­sion­al ex­changes on health care, dis­as­ter re­sponse, and law en­force­ment. The U.S. Fleet Forces Band “Un­chart­ed Wa­ters” will per­form free con­certs dur­ing the ship’s stay.

U.S. Em­bassy Chargé d’Af­faires Dr. Jenifer Nei­d­hart de Or­tiz said the vis­it high­lights the on­go­ing part­ner­ship be­tween the two coun­tries.

Com­man­der of U.S. Naval Forces South­ern Com­mand/U.S. 4th Fleet Rear Adm. Car­los Sardiel­lo said the mis­sion re­in­forces re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion and sup­port.

This is the USNS Com­fort’s sec­ond vis­it to Trinidad and To­ba­go.