Duration of hospital ship stay in Haiti uncertain

Hundreds of Haitians injured in the January 12th earthquake are being treated aboard the US Hospital ship Comfort. But as time passes, questions are being raised about how long the ship can remain anchored off Port-au-Prince.

Soon after its arrival at Haiti, the USNS Comfort was receiving 60 chopper loads of patients every day.

Nearly a month has now passed.

The Comfort's 250 beds and 12-hundred staff remain anchored off the coast as patients come and go by boat and helicopter.

The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort is anchored off the coast of Haiti January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte