Japan Sends Self-Defense Forces to Assist Haiti
- 14 years ago
Twenty-four members from Japan's Air Self Defense Force team departed for Haiti on Thursday.
They will arrive in a base in Miami, Florida to deliver supplies and trained personnel to the devastated Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, about 700 miles away from Miami.
Another team of 100 military doctors is scheduled to leave Japan's Narita Airport on Thursday and will link up with air transport division in Miami to transport the doctors into Haiti.
Haitian officials estimated the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.0 quake could be between 100,000 and 200,000.
75,000 bodies have already been buried in mass graves.
Many of the injured faced the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene, although outbreaks of infectious diseases have not erupted.
The World Food Program has provided seven days worth of rations to 200,000 people, but the International Organization for Migration estimates that a million are in need of immediate shelter.
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously agreed to temporarily add 2,000 U.N. troops and 1,500 police to the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
The reinforcement of personnel will help speed the arrival of aid and stem looting and violence.
Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti and on ships offshore including the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort.
They will arrive in a base in Miami, Florida to deliver supplies and trained personnel to the devastated Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, about 700 miles away from Miami.
Another team of 100 military doctors is scheduled to leave Japan's Narita Airport on Thursday and will link up with air transport division in Miami to transport the doctors into Haiti.
Haitian officials estimated the death toll from last week's magnitude 7.0 quake could be between 100,000 and 200,000.
75,000 bodies have already been buried in mass graves.
Many of the injured faced the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene, although outbreaks of infectious diseases have not erupted.
The World Food Program has provided seven days worth of rations to 200,000 people, but the International Organization for Migration estimates that a million are in need of immediate shelter.
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously agreed to temporarily add 2,000 U.N. troops and 1,500 police to the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
The reinforcement of personnel will help speed the arrival of aid and stem looting and violence.
Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti and on ships offshore including the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort.