Iranian medics treat some 300 injured Haitians every day

Iranian doctors and aid workers are treating some three hundred injured Haitians in field hospitals as survivors wander past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets as the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake reaches into the tens of thousands.

“Some 300 injured people are receiving medical treatment and supports on a daily basis in tents pitched by Iran's Red Crescent society. The Iranian team of doctors and aid workers is stationed in front of the Venezuelan embassy in Port-au-Prince and provides services to quake-stricken people from 8 a.m. local time (1300 GMT) till 4 p.m. (2100 GMT) every day,” Iranian Red Crescent society's Director General for International Affairs Abdul-Raouf Adib said on Saturday..

The Iranian cargo plane with food, water, medical supplies, and detergents headed to the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation three days after a magnitude-7 quake flattened much of the capital of 2 million people.

The earthquake on January 12 brought down buildings great and small - from shacks in shantytowns to President Rene Preval's gleaming white National Palace, where a dome tilted ominously above the manicured grounds.

Hospitals, schools and the main prison collapsed. The capital's Roman Catholic archbishop was killed when his office and the main cathedral collapsed. The head of the UN peacekeeping mission went missing in the ruins of the organization's multistory headquarters.

An estimated 200,000 people have lost their lives in Haiti's worst natural disaster so far. Around one million have been made homeless by the quake and are in need of temporary housing in about 200,000 tents; but only 2,000 tents have been distributed thus far.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117433§ionid=351020706.