Needed Medical Supplies Flown From Opa-locka Executive Airport To Haiti

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A life-saving formation with needed aesculapian supplies near Opa-locka Executive Airport Thursday greeting bound for Haiti.

Following past weekend’s 7.2 earthquake that killed much than 2,200 radical and destroyed much than 75,000 homes and businesses, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) worked with their aesculapian squad connected the crushed successful Haiti to find which items were critically needed by healthcare centers, hospitals, and different aesculapian facilities to code the aesculapian needs of those impacted.

Items that were sent included generators, since determination is nary energy successful hospitals successful the impacted area, aesculapian supplies, aspirin, and different captious medications.

“When the earthquake happened our SOS alarms went disconnected wrong astir 10 minutes. We instantly activated our exigency effect staff, we are archetypal responders passim Latin America. The assemblage rapidly came together. This is the archetypal of respective flights going to Haiti. This 1 prioritized is really a smaller craft than what the different ones volition beryllium due to the fact that the absorption of this formation is to get the life-saving materials into the hands of the doctors, the hospitals, and the archetypal responders and besides to supply water,” AHF Southern Bureau Chief Michael Kahane.

Water bottles are excessively ample truthful they sent purification kits, astir 10 1000 of them, truthful radical volition person h2o for the adjacent 30 days.

“We unrecorded successful truly divisive times and it’s truthful refreshing to spot radical travel unneurotic to assistance different people,” said Kahane.

Once the supplies get successful Port-au-Prince, the materials volition beryllium breached up and taken into those impacted communities successful the southbound via smaller planes. People with precise terrible injuries volition beryllium taken backmost to Port-au-Prince.

AHF has charted a 2nd formation that volition transportation the thousands of pounds of items needed by families, children, and those with captious illnesses. It volition depart connected Wednesday, August 25th.

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Click here for a database of organizations gathering funds and supplies to assistance those successful request successful Haiti.