South Florida Sending More Relief Supplies To Haiti

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The decease toll successful Haiti from past weekend’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake has topped the 2 1000 mark.

A level loaded with alleviation supplies is scheduled to permission Opa-locka Executive Airport connected Friday morning.

On Thursday, a level loaded with aesculapian supplies near from the Opa-locka airport. The charter formation was arranged by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) which 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.

“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.

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.

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

The U.S. Coast Guard has been airlifting earnestly injured survivors to Port au Prince for treatment. Since Sunday, they transported astir 100 people. They’ve besides flown successful much than 200 municipality catastrophe and alleviation unit to the hardest deed areas successful the confederate portion of the state on with 800 pounds of alleviation supplies.

Hospitals successful Port au Prince are astatine capableness and doctors are struggling to dainty the implicit 12 1000 earthquake victims.

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In a stroke to alleviation efforts, a large infirmary successful Port au Prince closed arsenic portion of a 2 time unopen down to protestation the kidnapping of 2 Haitian doctors. As a result, a parent and her kid died waiting for 1 of the doctors who was seized.