The Relief Effort:
Red Cross: 2000 Haitian Red Cross volunteers among first responders
- 1-week 400 international Red Cross and Red Crescent workers deployed.
- 1-month 600 deployed.
- 30 National Red Cross or Red Crescent Societies including, a strong regional presence.
- They set up emergency hospitals, got basic health care functioning, and by month’s end were treating 1,600 patients a day; Relief supplies had been delivered to more than 122,000 people; 14 million litres of water provided, and 70 relief flights had landed in Haiti or the neighbouring Dominican Republic