Tulsa Sailor Participates In Pacific Ocean-Based Humanitarian Mission

LABASA, Fiji 

A sailor from Tulsa was aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship that visited the Labasa Hospital in Fiji last week. 

According to a news release from the Navy, it's part of an operation called Pacific Partnership 2015.

Mercy is currently in Savusavu, Fiji its first stop in PP15. Commander Alan Ross, a Navy audiologist from Tulsa, administered hearing tests at the hospital, including one to a newborn.

This is the tenth edition of Pacific Partnership, the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. 

The primary goal of Pacific Partnership is to train for crisis conditions. But over the years the operation has provided real-world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. 

It's also provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through more than 180 engineering projects.