My OperaAid to Haiti
Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:11:51 PM
Perhaps I should not have been so surprised to learn that China was the first country to put a professional rescue team to work in Haiti. Just the idea that the first help to arrive had to spend twenty hours in the air to get there; and that they landed during the night and were working before daylight is truly impressive. It is essential to be able to react as China did, assembling a team, loading 20 tons of emergency supplies, and having them airborne in a few hours. After the quake struck Haiti most countries were still wondering and debating what to do the following day.
Maybe I was wrong.
As of Wednesday afternoon,Cuban specialists already in Haiti providing med-care to the poor reportedly had provided medical care to 1,102 people, including 19 surgical operations, while 26 patients died including nine children. According to a television report, another Cuban medical brigade created for emergency situations, had arrived in Haiti. They traveled on Wednesday like the Chinese to the Haitian capital taking medicines, clothes, food, saline solution and plasma bags but they had a much shorter trip to get there.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the immediate deployment of the aid team on Tuesday comprised of doctors, engineers, search and rescue specialists, and civil protection officers, as well as urgently needed food, water, medical supplies, and rescue equipment. They arrived Wednesday. Chavez said Venezuela would send further aid and supplies. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega sent a team of electricians to help with the repair of power lines as much of the countries' electricity and telecommunications systems were destroyed in the quake. Cuba sent medical supplies and doctors, while Mexico is sending a team of doctors and rescue workers.
Real aid to Haiti even before the quake began continues.
According to a television report, another Cuban medical brigade created for emergency situations, is already in Haiti. They traveled on Wednesday to the Haitian capital taking medicines, clothes, food, saline solution and plasma bags.
Some of the members of the group who made their contribution in Pakistan after a devastating earthquake hit this Asian country a few years ago, compared the visible damages in Port-au-Prince to the most affected areas in Pakistan. The television report announced that Joel Melo Torres, from the Faculty of Accounting and Finances of the University of Havana, who was on a post-graduate course at the University of Port-au-Prince, was receiving medical care from the Cuban doctors and was reported as seriously injured. The 152 Cubans working on collaboration programs in the Haitian capital were reported to be in good health. Only two of them suffered minor injuries from the earthquake that hit that Caribbean nation on Tuesday. The head of the education brigade, Adalberto Bravo Carbonell suffered a dislocation to his right knee and Alina Almeida Rivera, also member of the brigade, had a minor lesion on her right leg.
For the left bashers. It may be a surprise that socialist countries responded immediately to the quake in Haiti. Capitalism does nothing for illiteracy, education, or health care; that are rights in socialist countries. The only countries freed from illiteracy in Latin America are socialist and the only ones with free education and health care are socialist. Capitalism has attempted to perpetuate slavery in Haiti but all things must come to an end sooner or later. Western countries will promise millions in aid for what; to pay for military assistance? In a disaster humanity is required, something that capitalists do not understand.
Maybe I was wrong.
As of Wednesday afternoon,Cuban specialists already in Haiti providing med-care to the poor reportedly had provided medical care to 1,102 people, including 19 surgical operations, while 26 patients died including nine children. According to a television report, another Cuban medical brigade created for emergency situations, had arrived in Haiti. They traveled on Wednesday like the Chinese to the Haitian capital taking medicines, clothes, food, saline solution and plasma bags but they had a much shorter trip to get there.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the immediate deployment of the aid team on Tuesday comprised of doctors, engineers, search and rescue specialists, and civil protection officers, as well as urgently needed food, water, medical supplies, and rescue equipment. They arrived Wednesday. Chavez said Venezuela would send further aid and supplies. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega sent a team of electricians to help with the repair of power lines as much of the countries' electricity and telecommunications systems were destroyed in the quake. Cuba sent medical supplies and doctors, while Mexico is sending a team of doctors and rescue workers.
Real aid to Haiti even before the quake began continues.
According to a television report, another Cuban medical brigade created for emergency situations, is already in Haiti. They traveled on Wednesday to the Haitian capital taking medicines, clothes, food, saline solution and plasma bags.
Some of the members of the group who made their contribution in Pakistan after a devastating earthquake hit this Asian country a few years ago, compared the visible damages in Port-au-Prince to the most affected areas in Pakistan. The television report announced that Joel Melo Torres, from the Faculty of Accounting and Finances of the University of Havana, who was on a post-graduate course at the University of Port-au-Prince, was receiving medical care from the Cuban doctors and was reported as seriously injured. The 152 Cubans working on collaboration programs in the Haitian capital were reported to be in good health. Only two of them suffered minor injuries from the earthquake that hit that Caribbean nation on Tuesday. The head of the education brigade, Adalberto Bravo Carbonell suffered a dislocation to his right knee and Alina Almeida Rivera, also member of the brigade, had a minor lesion on her right leg.
For the left bashers. It may be a surprise that socialist countries responded immediately to the quake in Haiti. Capitalism does nothing for illiteracy, education, or health care; that are rights in socialist countries. The only countries freed from illiteracy in Latin America are socialist and the only ones with free education and health care are socialist. Capitalism has attempted to perpetuate slavery in Haiti but all things must come to an end sooner or later. Western countries will promise millions in aid for what; to pay for military assistance? In a disaster humanity is required, something that capitalists do not understand.
