Mexico Sends Aid to Haiti PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 14 January 2010 12:14
Mexico City, Jan 13 - President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that Mexico is dispatching up to 70 tons of food to earthquake-stricken Haiti aboard military transport planes and a hospital ship along with physicians, experts in emergency management and search teams with rescue dogs, he said.

President Calderon also said an additional Mexican navy ship carrying supplies is due to leave this weekend for Haiti, rocked Tuesday by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake.

The food came from the Mexican Red Cross, the federal government and private charities, Calderon said in a nationally broadcast address. Referring to the devastation Mexico City suffered in 1985 from a magnitude-8.1 quake, he appealed to his compatriots to show solidarity with the Haitians.

More than 30 centers across Mexico have been opened to collect donations of supplies for Haiti by The United Nations and Red Cross.

U.N. disaster-relief specialists stationed in Mexico are already on their way to Haiti to assess the situation and help coordinate the international response, the world body's Mexico City office said in a statement.

Fourteen civilian employees and 16 peacekeepers serving with the U.N. Stabilization Mission in Haiti, known as Minustah, died in Tuesday's earthquake.

There are still no official figures on casualties, but Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN that the death toll could exceed 100,000.


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