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or calling from a landline TELECOM ITALY. at 16.53 on Tuesday, Haiti was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale. The epicenter was located at 16km from the capital and the earthquake hit an area where there are more than 2.5 million people, the majority in absolute poverty. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and has been recently affected by other natural disasters - a series of hurricanes in 2008 caused the deaths of more than 800 people - as well as serious conditions of political instability which led In 2004, the United Nations to send a peacekeeping mission.
quantify the exact scale of the disaster is still impossible, but the information we receive from the operators of our NGOs are not only confirm the severity of the disaster. The most optimistic estimates speak of 100,000 dead, many fear that exceed the record of 240,000 registered victims during the tsunami of 2004. Hours go by and you reduce the chance of finding people alive under the rubble. Concerns about risks to public health are pressing. Hundreds of bodies have not yet buried and could become a vehicle for outbreaks in the coming days. In Port-au-Prince as virtually non-existent health facilities working.
The first emergency teams are on the ground to deliver aid and conduct a needs assessment. At present, the population needs shelter, health kits and water purification, ambulances for emergency medicine, and food. The international mobilization to help the three million Haitians affected by the disaster is massive, but to address the consequences of the disaster will require extra investment. ACT, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he immediately launched an emergency appeal to raise funds to support a rapid, effective and appropriately sized to the crisis we are facing.
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