Update on the Situation in Haiti (January 15)

Satellite communication has been established with the team in Port au Prince, and mobile phone communications are being made through the Dominican Republic.

At this moment arrangements have been made to help people receive life-saving medical services in two ways: through collaboration with other agencies to quickly set up an emergency clinic in Port au Prince in a heavily affected neighborhood near the airport, and by moving people from the most volatile areas of Port au Prince to an area further north where they will have access to food, water and shelter.

1000 patients rushed to an AMURT clinic this morning for emergency treatment. AMURT / AMURTEL will send more doctors and emergency specialists (some of whom have worked with AMURT / AMURTEL before and who specialize in emergency relief for natural disasters and calamities), as well as medical supplies to help the several thousand people who are expected at the clinic in the coming days. The supplies that were there have already run out.

AMURT & AMURTEL have more than 2 decades of experience in this kind of work in Haiti and have facilitated many development projects. AMURTEL focuses in particular on the special needs of women and children in disaster situations.

The teams are responding to this calamity quickly and effectively and are committed to staying as long as necessary to relieve the suffering caused by this natural disaster.

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