Huge Red Cross convoy to Haiti

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Convoys of trucks bound for Haiti were leaving Santo Domingo throughout the weekend, loaded with an "enormous amount" of relief supplies. "This is taking a lot of time", said Michael Cochrane, the Red Cross spokesperson in Geneva, "because the roads are narrow and some of the vehicles in the convoy are very large". There are two mobile hospitals, "the most incredible that I have seen" said Cochrane. The convoy had to travel by land because of the congestion at the only airport in Port-au-Prince. The United Nations said that they had turned a corner on Saturday with the arrival of 180 tons of relief supplies that they began to distribute to the desperately hungry victims. The supplies included 13 trucks loaded with bottled water. According to Listin Diario, Red Cross workers from Norway, Finland, Spain, Denmark and Japan are accompanying the mobile 50-bed hospital to Haiti.

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