Nicaragua Sends
Rescuers, Military Doctors To Haiti
MANAGUA - Nicaraguan on Thursday sent 31
military doctors of the Humanitarian Rescue
Unit (URH) and humanitarian aid for the
victims of a magnitude-7 earthquake that
shocked Haiti on Tuesday.
The Nicaraguan rescuers and doctors will
assist at least some 3,000 victims of the
earthquake in Part-au-Prince, capital of
Honduras, for some 10 days.
Before the plane took off, chief of the
Nicaraguan Army, General Omar Halleslevens
inspected the two AN-26 planes which carried
the aid to Haiti.
The 31 officers of the URH travel in one of
the planes, while the other plane was loaded
with portable beds and medicines to aid the
victims in Haiti. The cost of this aid is of
100,000 U.S. dollars.
Among the 31 URH officers there are experts
to reestablish the electricity system and to
provide the first aids.
The two Nicaraguan planes will make a stop
in Jamaica for later take off to Haiti.
Haitian President Rene Preval said on
Wednesday that there are at least some
100,000 deaths and Port-au-Prince was
devastated by the strong earthquake.
On Wednesday, Nicaraguan government
spokesman Rosario Murillo announced that
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ordered
to send two planes of the army to Haiti with
a humanitarian brigade and humanitarian aid.
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