NewsWhore
09-08-2008, 02:40 PM
The DR is sending a team of 17 doctors and paramedics to Haiti via the border crossing at Jimani to provide humanitarian assistance to victims of the recent storms. Rains and winds caused by the latest storm, Hurricane Ike, have killed 58 people in Haiti, which had already suffered the effects of intense rains resulting from previous storms Fay, Gustav and Hanna. President Leonel Fernandez ordered RD$10 million worth of food and medicines to be sent to help 150,000 refugees in Port-au-Prince and Gonaives. The Ministry of Public Health said the team would be in Haiti for three days. Also participating are 20 Haitian medical students from PUCMM in Santiago. The team was standing by yesterday, waiting for the Bani-Azua highway to be reopened to traffic.
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