Tropical Storm Grace has temporarily halted search and rescue efforts in Haiti. It is a delay that has sparked the anger and frustration of thousands of people who have been made homeless after last week’s earthquake.
The storm hit southwestern Haiti, which was the area hardest hit by Saturday’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Up to 15 inches of rain fell before the storm took its course.
With the removal of more bodies from the rubble, the earthquake fatalities rose to 1,941, in addition to 9,900 people injured and 60,759 homes destroyed.
Patience is wearing thin in the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Haitians were already battling coronavirus, gang violence, poverty, and the political crisis left by the assassination of President Jovenel Moise when the earthquake struck. And now UNICEF warns that half a million children do not have access to safe water.
The earthquake, registered last Saturday near the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, is already the second deadliest in the last 25 years in Latin America, a list that tops the devastating earthquake that occurred in 2010 in the Caribbean country, in which they died. about 300,000 people.
Spain will send 10 tons of medical supplies to Haiti
Spain will send 10 tons of medical supplies and will contribute 250,000 euros to attend the humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
The aid will be channeled by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid) to meet the request of the Haitian Government and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Tuesday it’s a statement.
In addition to the health and financial response, Spain will support the management of water purification equipment previously provided by the Spanish Cooperation in order to provide the most vulnerable population and thus prevent the spread of diseases such as cholera.
From the first moment of the emergency, the Aecid Office of Humanitarian Action has been in contact with the Spanish Embassy in Haiti, as well as with the Aecid Technical Cooperation Office in the country to assess the situation and possible decisions aimed at to help in this emergency that the Haitian population suffers.
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