Pacific Partnership 2009 Brings Health Care, Engineering Assistance to Pacific Islands

摘要

Pacific Partnership 2009 completed a five-country, three-month humanitarian civic assistance mission on board the USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) on September 18, according to the U.S. Navy.Pacific Partnership 2009 traveled to Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, the Solomon Islands and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, remaining for 10 to 14 days in each coun- | try to deliver medical, dental, veterinary and preventive health care as well as civic assistance, Navy representatives said. The partnership treated 22,037 patients, they continued.