These “boats” have over a dozen operating rooms and typically as many as 1,000 or more hospital beds. The main hospitals in Port Au Prince have collapsed....what you ask for in this case?
How exactly does one help 3,000,000 people instantly?
One at a time. (Sadly)
Send the first ship available! Send it now! Follow up with more ships! These people need help.
My comment was really about the way people view the world and whether they think things are bigger than they are or smaller than they are.
Right now they need people to dig through the rubble.