PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (WAVY) — A Virginia Seaside-based humanitarian group has launched efforts to assist support victims affected by an enormous earthquake in Haiti.
Operation Blessing Director Dr. Emmanuela Delsoin Jean Baptiste says they’ve deployed a catastrophe aid staff to the epicenter of the earthquake the place they’re presently assessing the harm whereas emergency supplies are being sourced.
Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti’s Higher Antilles area. The earthquake is presently estimated to have taken the lives of practically 1,300 individuals, injuring 5,700 individuals, and collapsing 700 buildings.
The staff is predicted to help the Jeremie hospital together with distributing emergency provides, offering clear ingesting water, and offering medicines and medical provides to a L’Hopital Basic/ HUEH which is the largest public hospital within the nation.
The group has already deployed extra sources from its Worldwide Catastrophe Reduction staff which features a third medical physician, a clear water specialist/engineer. The staff is predicted to reach Wednesday.
That is the second main earthquake that has struck the nation. The earlier 7.0 magnitude earthquake occurring simply over a decade in the past.
In 2010, Operation Blessing deployed its worldwide catastrophe aid groups to Haiti following the historic earthquake and supplied support to tens of hundreds of Haitians in essentially the most devastated areas.
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The Norfolk-based USS Arlington can be heading to Haiti to assist with catastrophe aid. The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock is predicted to depart Tuesday, the Navy says.
It would be part of U.S. Southern Command Joint Activity Power-Haiti and is part of Expeditionary Strike Group 2.
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