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EMERGENCY in HAITI

Death Toll in Haiti Now Stands at over 200,000

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 (acn) Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive confirmed on Wednesday in
Port-au-Prince that the number of deaths as a consequence of the earthquake that devastated
that nation’s capital and several neighboring cities on January 12 has increased to over
200,000.
   During his speech before the Senate, he pointed out that the figure doesn’t include the
corpses that are still under the rubble or the victims buried by their own families, the
Prensa Latina news agency reports.
   Bellerrive also told the legislative chamber about the need of changing the government’s
structure, in order to be able to face the crisis derived from the earthquake, as reported by
several web sites.
   He expressed that the government –as it’s now constituted- can’t contribute results in the
face of this situation, and proposed the creation of an emergency executive with a
redefinition of the mission of ministers, or to leave the cabinet as it is and additionally
create a National Committee for Crisis.
   The earthquake, of seven degrees in the Richter scale, left over 190,000 people wounded -
many of them with amputations-, one million orphans, and three and a half million victims.
   The disaster, considered the worst in Haitian history, destroyed from emblematic buildings
like the Presidential Palace and the main buildings of the Parliament and the Archbishopric,
to hundreds of thousands of houses, schools and hospitals, among other facilities.
   As a consequence of the destruction, over half a million people had to abandon Port-au-
Prince and take refuge in rural areas.

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 20 (acn) The Cuban health personnel currently making
their contribution in the Haitian capital is prioritizing the vitality of
the few hospitals that are still providing medical services in
Port-au-Prince after the devastating earthquake that hit this Caribbean
nation last week.
The number of surgeries required currently exceeds the capacity of
response and although the amount of medicines and resources is limited the
health professionals intensify their efforts.
The Cuban personnel are currently working in the University Hospital,
also known as Delmas 33, and at the Ofatma and Rennaissance hospitals, as
well as in other facilities near Port-au-Prince.
In Delmas 33, the Cuban doctors have been joined by surgeons, nurses
and health technicians from other countries such as Venezuela, Spain,
Norway, Canada and Argentina, among others.
Others contributing to the humanitarian efforts are the Red Cross from
Colombia and 10 nuns from Santo Domingo’s Daughters of the Charity of
Saint Vincent of Paulin congregation.

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Priorizan médicos cubanos vitalidad de hospitales en Haití

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