Haiti earthquake: United States and Latin American countries provide aid to victims
Americans in support of the disaster-stricken populations of Haiti.
Les Cailles, August 17, 2021. AFP - REGINALD LOUISSAINT JR
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Nearly 2,000 dead after the earthquake that hit the southwest of the country last Saturday and the tropical storm that followed in Haiti.
This assessment is still provisional and could become even worse, because the relief operations continue in these difficult conditions.
The international community is working to help.
On the front line: the United States.
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Since last Monday, a team from USAID, the US agency for international development, has been on site in the three affected departments.
Three helicopters are making round trips.
They brought tents, medical supplies and food.
Above all, they evacuated around fifty seriously injured people to hospitals in Port-au-Prince.
🇭🇹HAITI FACT SHEET # 2: https://t.co/BE5Ogs2GWu
✳️ 65 Urban Search & Rescue personnel deployed
✳️ 8 🚁deployed by @Southcom
✳️ 2 🚁deployed by @uscoastguard
✳️ 2K hygiene kits distributed
✳️ 50K ppl provided w / shelter
✳️ + 3K ppl receiving hot meals pic.twitter.com/ekqLahUA59
- USAID (@USAID) August 17, 2021
Eight more US military helicopters are dispatched to the Haitian capital, but due to Tropical Storm Grace, which hit the country on Sunday, their takeoff has been delayed.
This logistical reinforcement will increase the capacity to provide supplies, as well as search and rescue teams in disaster areas.
Thanks to these shuttles, medical personnel can be transported quickly to hospitals in the three departments of the southwest affected by the earthquake.
The roads being impractical due to the reason and torrential rains that followed.
In the affected regions, hospitals are overwhelmed and severely short of medical staff.
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Other countries in the region are also mobilizing: the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Chile which sent a plane loaded with 16 tons of aid two days ago, or Colombia which sent a chartered plane with between other dogs specializing in the search for people buried under the rubble, and Mexico ...
Thanks to the support of @SEDENAmx and @SEMAR_mx, we sent humanitarian aid to # Haiti, in support of the 7.2 earthquake they suffered a few days ago.
🇲🇽🤝🇭🇹 https://t.co/5swUNh9k3Q
- Embamex Haití (@EmbamexHaiti) August 17, 2021
This aid from abroad is essential for the affected population, more than a million people, because the Haitian state sorely lacks the means to rescue people and provide them with basic necessities.
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