Chilean Lt. Col. Luis Cevallos, a dentist, shares his experience working with the U.S. service members aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort is working with health and government partners in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean to provide care on the ship and at land-based medical sites, helping to relieve pressure on national medical systems, including those strained by an increase in cross-border migrants. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jordan R. Bair)
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My name is Lieutenant Colonel Luis Cevallos I come from the Chilean Air Force and I’m a dentist. I’m very happy to be one of the people that can do some work at the med sites. I do surgery. Taking teeth out or pieces of teeth that are in bad conditions, so they can do a restoration of some kind to rearrange the teeth that they do have. I think we’re doing a lot of good to the people that we are visiting. The resolution of doing well to the people and the people being happy with the treatment, is something that makes it good. And we are partnered nations and we need to work together. Especially in the medical art, it’s important to join corporations. That we can contribute one country to another.