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Comfort is more advanced than a field hospital but less capable than a traditional hospital on land.

 

Capt. Dean Bradford, master of Comfort,

greets Princess Anne on 11 July 2002

while the ship was docked in Southampton, UK

 

 

USNS Comfort's Engine Room

 

 

Hospital beds inside Comfort while in Peru in 2018

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General characteristics

• Patient capacity:
  • Intensive care wards: 80 beds
  • Recovery wards: 20 beds
  • Intermediate care wards: 280 beds
  • Light care wards: 120 beds
  • Limited care wards: 500 beds
  • Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds
  • Operating Rooms: 12

• Departments and facilities:
  • Casualty reception
  • Intensive care unit
  • Radiological services
  • Main laboratory plus satellite lab
  • Central sterile receiving
  • Medical supply/pharmacy
  • Physical therapy and burn care
  • Dental services
  • Optometry/lens lab
  • Morgue
  • Laundry
  • Oxygen producing plants (two)
  • Medical Photography
  • Four distilling plants to make drinking water from sea water (300,000 US gallons (1,100,000 l; 250,000 imp gal) per day)