Dominican President Luis Abinader ordered the sending of humanitarian aid to Haiti after the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that devastated southern Haiti on Saturday August 14, 2021 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34479-haiti-flash-magnitude-72-earthquake-in-the-nippes-updated-10am.htmlcausing more than 300 dead and more than 1,800 injured according to a first provisional report https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34488-haiti-flash-more-than-300-dead-nearly-2-000-injured-very-significant-material-damage-provisional-assessment.html

A press release from the presidency states that 10,000 rations of food and medicine were sent by sea from Cabo Rojo and Manzanillo.

In addition to drugs, 2 million masks and hand gel to protect the population from the spread of Covid-19.

Likewise, this aid includes medical equipment : wheelchairs, anesthesia circuits, suture kits, cotton, needles, gowns and cannulas among others.

The assistance is coordinated by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Administration of the Dominican Presidency "who contacted the Haitian authorities for this purpose from the early hours to provide Dominican assistance, in this catastrophe [...] https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34479-haiti-flash-magnitude-72-earthquake-in-the-nippes-updated-10am.html ."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34488-haiti-flash-more-than-300-dead-nearly-2-000-injured-very-significant-material-damage-provisional-assessment.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34487-haiti-flash-the-human-toll-promises-to-be-heavy-already-227-dead-and-hundreds-injured.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34486-haiti-flash-7-new-aftershocks-in-the-southern-peninsula.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34480-haiti-flash-second-earthquake-in-haiti-magnitude-52.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-34479-haiti-flash-magnitude-72-earthquake-in-the-nippes.html

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