Article DetailsChina Announces 18 Million Yuan Additional Aid to Haiti |
| Date Added: January 25, 2010 06:46:06 AM |
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| MOC, the Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday that China will provide medical supplies amounting to 18 million yuan, 2.64 million U.S. Dollars in additional aid shower hose earthquake-ravaged Haiti. A 40-member Chinese medical team and the prevention of the epidemic will travel to Haiti from Beijing Capital International Airport Sunday afternoon with the Medical Council, the MOC said in a statement published on its website. The 20 tonnes of medical supplies were drugs, acrylic solid surface hygiene, medical devices and equipment including camping, the ministry said. Also on the four officers were Chinese police peacekeeping, will replace the four who died were killed in the earthquake. China has 125 peacekeepers in Haiti. The flight was expected in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to get 3 hours of the clock Monday, he said. JI The statement also said that 40 medical personnel were from the military medical system in China and 70 percent of them had participated in peacekeeping missions of the United Nations for the past. Many of them were in the massive relief operation from the deadly 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Wenchuan May 12, 2008, which killed about 87,000 people involved or missing links. According to the MOC, with 18 million yuan of additional assistance, China was the humanitarian assistance worth 48 million yuan in materials and other supplies to Haiti, most of the 3.6 million U.S. in cash in the Caribbean, after hit by magnitude 7.3 earthquake on January 12 have been killed over 110,000 people. |
