ANOTHER AFTER SHOCK IN HAITI??...6.2?
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Sorry SHEA but where did you get your info from? Cuba has doctors there now in Haiti working without protection, etc. and they aren't on your list for some reason... Actually cuba was one of the first countries to send doctors here is a video from corporate CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/19/darlington.hatiti.cuban.doctors.cnn.html
You also don't have Norway & Argentina on your list, amongst others, so I'm really questioning where your information has came...
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/19/darlington.hatiti.cuban.doctors.cnn.html
You also don't have Norway & Argentina on your list, amongst others, so I'm really questioning where your information has came...
http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=4669
CUBAN President Raul Castro has pledged more aid to earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Cuba now has over 430 physicians in Haiti and President Raul informed his counterpart President Rene Garcia Preval that he could count on Cuban aid.
“My dear friend, news of the earthquake that has devastated the sister Republic of Haiti has filled us with profound pain and consternation,” President Raul wrote. “On behalf of the Cuban people and government, I convey to you our most heartfelt condolences and reiterate that you can count on aid in solidarity from our country at this difficult time. With my highest consideration and esteem.”
So far Cuba has scaled physicians to 432 to help attend to medical needs after Haiti was hit by a 7.3 degrees magnitude earthquake on January 12.
The health staff, with almost ten tonnes of foods, water, provisioning, and medicines arrived in the congested Port-au-Prince airport on Saturday after several failed attempts since Thursday last week.
The Henry Reeve Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, about 447 Cubans are now working in Haiti
Epidemiologist Gonzalo Estevez, the second leader to the medical brigade, stated that they were working in extremely difficult conditions because the population had not recovered yet from the tremor.
Meanwhile, former president Fidel Castro on Sunday said the news reported from Haiti described a great chaos that was to be expected given the exceptional situation created in the aftermath of the catastrophe.
“At first, a feeling of surprise, astonishment and commotion set in,” he wrote in his column published on Sunday. “A desire to offer immediate assistance came up in the farthest places of the earth. What assistance should be sent -and how- to a Caribbean nation from China, India, Vietnam and other countries that are tens of thousands of kilometers away? The magnitude of the earthquake and the poverty that exists in that country generated at first some ideas about probable needs which gave rise to all types of promises that are possible in terms of resources that later on are tried to be conveyed through every possible way.
We Cubans understood that the most important thing at that moment was to save lives, and we are trained not only to cope with catastrophes like that, but also to cope with other natural catastrophes related to human health.”
Fidel said hundreds of Cuban doctors were working in Haiti along with quite a number of young Haitians of humble origin who had become well trained health professionals.
He said the destruction caused by the earthquake exceeded all calculations.
Fidel said the humble clay and adobe houses in a city with almost two million inhabitants could not stand.
He said the solid government facilities collapsed, entire blocks of houses crumbled over their tenants who at that time of the day -almost at dusk- were inside their homes; and they were all buried dead or alive under the rubble.
Fidel said the immediate decision adopted by the dedicated Cuban doctors who worked in Haiti as well as by the young health professionals from Haiti who had graduated in Cuba was to establish contact among them, know about each other's fate and wonder what were the resources available to assist the Haitian people in the midst of that tragedy.
He said the Cuban doctors who were on vacation in Cuba as well as the Haitian doctors who were taking their specialisation courses immediately readied themselves to leave for Haiti.
“Other Cuban surgery experts who had accomplished difficult missions volunteered to accompany them,” he said. “Suffice it to say that in less than 24 hours our doctors had already assisted hundreds of patients. Our medical personnel is ready to cooperate and join forces with all other health specialists who have been sent to save lives in that sister nation. Haiti could become an example of what humankind can do for itself.
The possibility and the means exist but willingness is missing. The longer it takes to bury or incinerate the corpses and to distribute food and other vital supplies, the higher the risks of epidemics and social violence will be. Haiti will put to the test the endurance of the cooperation spirit before egoism, chauvinism, ignoble interests and contempt for other nations prevail.”
Fidel said a climate change jeopardised the whole humankind.
He said the earthquake at Port-au-Prince, hardly three weeks after the Copenhagen conference reminded everyone “how selfishly and arrogantly we behaved then.”
“Countries are taking a close look at all that is happening in Haiti,” said Fidel. “The world's public opinion and peoples' criticisms will be ever harsher and unforgiving.”
CUBAN President Raul Castro has pledged more aid to earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Cuba now has over 430 physicians in Haiti and President Raul informed his counterpart President Rene Garcia Preval that he could count on Cuban aid.
“My dear friend, news of the earthquake that has devastated the sister Republic of Haiti has filled us with profound pain and consternation,” President Raul wrote. “On behalf of the Cuban people and government, I convey to you our most heartfelt condolences and reiterate that you can count on aid in solidarity from our country at this difficult time. With my highest consideration and esteem.”
So far Cuba has scaled physicians to 432 to help attend to medical needs after Haiti was hit by a 7.3 degrees magnitude earthquake on January 12.
The health staff, with almost ten tonnes of foods, water, provisioning, and medicines arrived in the congested Port-au-Prince airport on Saturday after several failed attempts since Thursday last week.
The Henry Reeve Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, about 447 Cubans are now working in Haiti
Epidemiologist Gonzalo Estevez, the second leader to the medical brigade, stated that they were working in extremely difficult conditions because the population had not recovered yet from the tremor.
Meanwhile, former president Fidel Castro on Sunday said the news reported from Haiti described a great chaos that was to be expected given the exceptional situation created in the aftermath of the catastrophe.
“At first, a feeling of surprise, astonishment and commotion set in,” he wrote in his column published on Sunday. “A desire to offer immediate assistance came up in the farthest places of the earth. What assistance should be sent -and how- to a Caribbean nation from China, India, Vietnam and other countries that are tens of thousands of kilometers away? The magnitude of the earthquake and the poverty that exists in that country generated at first some ideas about probable needs which gave rise to all types of promises that are possible in terms of resources that later on are tried to be conveyed through every possible way.
We Cubans understood that the most important thing at that moment was to save lives, and we are trained not only to cope with catastrophes like that, but also to cope with other natural catastrophes related to human health.”
Fidel said hundreds of Cuban doctors were working in Haiti along with quite a number of young Haitians of humble origin who had become well trained health professionals.
He said the destruction caused by the earthquake exceeded all calculations.
Fidel said the humble clay and adobe houses in a city with almost two million inhabitants could not stand.
He said the solid government facilities collapsed, entire blocks of houses crumbled over their tenants who at that time of the day -almost at dusk- were inside their homes; and they were all buried dead or alive under the rubble.
Fidel said the immediate decision adopted by the dedicated Cuban doctors who worked in Haiti as well as by the young health professionals from Haiti who had graduated in Cuba was to establish contact among them, know about each other's fate and wonder what were the resources available to assist the Haitian people in the midst of that tragedy.
He said the Cuban doctors who were on vacation in Cuba as well as the Haitian doctors who were taking their specialisation courses immediately readied themselves to leave for Haiti.
“Other Cuban surgery experts who had accomplished difficult missions volunteered to accompany them,” he said. “Suffice it to say that in less than 24 hours our doctors had already assisted hundreds of patients. Our medical personnel is ready to cooperate and join forces with all other health specialists who have been sent to save lives in that sister nation. Haiti could become an example of what humankind can do for itself.
The possibility and the means exist but willingness is missing. The longer it takes to bury or incinerate the corpses and to distribute food and other vital supplies, the higher the risks of epidemics and social violence will be. Haiti will put to the test the endurance of the cooperation spirit before egoism, chauvinism, ignoble interests and contempt for other nations prevail.”
Fidel said a climate change jeopardised the whole humankind.
He said the earthquake at Port-au-Prince, hardly three weeks after the Copenhagen conference reminded everyone “how selfishly and arrogantly we behaved then.”
“Countries are taking a close look at all that is happening in Haiti,” said Fidel. “The world's public opinion and peoples' criticisms will be ever harsher and unforgiving.”
And it's ironic that Cuba had hundreds of doctors and makeshift hospitals waiting for liftoff just hours after Hurricane Katrina hit and the US would not allow them to help the dying and needful people, meanwhile the the US government sat with thumbs up their asses for a week or more before making a move.
Also shea, see my post in the other thread about what the US government is doing to fuck this up. The American people have been responding like true humanitarians, donating more money than any other crisis in history I believe, but the government is fucking shit up in Haiti big time.
Here is the post you should peep out:
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showpost.php?p=4952340&postcount=500
Also shea, see my post in the other thread about what the US government is doing to fuck this up. The American people have been responding like true humanitarians, donating more money than any other crisis in history I believe, but the government is fucking shit up in Haiti big time.
Here is the post you should peep out:
http://www.siccness.net/vb/showpost.php?p=4952340&postcount=500
^^Germany has come up with about 17 million € in donations just by the public alone, i think our government at least sent 1 million down their way!
This list is faulty man. We got Haiti donation commercials on every major tv network and even though it might sound surprising for many of you, Germans can be compassionate at times. Fold. GOT EM!! ~k
This list is faulty man. We got Haiti donation commercials on every major tv network and even though it might sound surprising for many of you, Germans can be compassionate at times. Fold. GOT EM!! ~k
Pretty much all of the countries SHEA mentioned aside from Saudi Arabia is on this list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humani...onal_governments_to_the_2010_Haiti_earthquake
