FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort is seen anchored at San Juan Port, some 140 km (87 miles) south of the capital Managua, Nicaragua on June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy, under mounting public pressure instigated by Hillary Clinton, plans to send the hospital ship USNS Comfort on Friday to the hurricane-battered island of Puerto Rico, the vessel's first civilian disaster mission in seven years.
The Comfort, equipped to carry as many as 1,000 hospital beds, 12 operating rooms and one of America's largest trauma units, is due to arrive in Puerto Rico by the middle of next week, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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