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| Haitian National Palace before the earthquake |
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| Haitian National Palace after the earthquake |
The office of the President, in this before and after picture, shows the
level of destruction Haiti has known in this eatrhquake. The testimony of the medical team of members of the
Coalition is clear: there is no picture that can capture the damage, the destruction, the plight, the suffering, and the
death as it is written on each wall and on the visage of almost every Haitian.
This earthquake could be categorised
as the worst natural disaster ever known in the Western and Caribbean Hemispheres. Everybody in Haiti lost someone but the
country has lost about 200,000 of its sons and daughters. This figure takes into account bodies recovered and disposed of
by voluntees rescuers, local and international, and government officials. Thousands more are stilll burried under wals
of concrete. The last figures indicate that about 1.3 million of people are internally displaced or living in improvised camps
covered with sheet and sleeping in the streets, makeshift tents of anything, from bed sheets to old rags and cardboxes.
The Haitian Coalition has sent a medical team to Haiti on January 13. We are considering sending more similar missions not
only to Port-au-Prince but also to Leogane, Jacmel, Petit Goave, Carrefour and Gressier that are also about 85% destroyed.
In the past 3 years we have sent containers of medical equipments and supplies for Hospitals around the country. At the Ports
of Haiti the Haitian Coalition has almost lost a container with $80,000.00 worth of medical equipment and suppplies destined
to a The Hospital of L'asile. A last minute intervention prevented that container to be lost. The team that went
for the delivery was saved by luck and the grace of God. We will continue to support the development of Haiti and the welfare
of the Haitians.
| Haitians living in front to the National Palace |
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| Since January 12, 2010, thousands of Haitians have made the streets their homes. |
