The Turkish Red Crescent’s humanitarian aid team in Haiti has set-up 200 tents near Port-Au-Prince, providing shelter to nearly 1,200 earthquake victims. Shelter has been identified as one of the most crucial needs after the earthquake. The Turkish Red Crescent team is also coordinating the distribution of food and other humanitarian needs to Haitians in the settlement and others through a distribution system via trucks from the Dominican Republic. The team reportedly distributed aid to nearly 7,000 people since its arrival.
In addition to the Turkish Red Crescent team, Turkey’s Health Ministry has sent two ambulances and drivers, a field hospital with its medical team and 10 tons of medical aid to Haiti. Turkish search and rescue teams arrived in Port-Au-Prince in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake and saved several survivors from the debris. Meanwhile, 44 officers of the 57-strong contingent of the Turkish police force that serves under the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti remained in the country to help maintain security in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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