Israel will set up a permanent trauma and emergency center in Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second-largest city with more than 1 million residents.
The center, a pilot project, will be in an area that currently has no infrastructure for trauma victims, Ynetnews reported.
Meanwhile, IsraAID’s medical clinic in Leogane, Haiti, has been declared a cholera treatment facility by the United Nations. The clinic, which is fully funded by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, has treated hundreds of families since early September, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, and Israel has sent 200,000 doses of cholera medication to Haiti.
Leogane, a coastal city 18 miles west of the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, was at the epicenter of the January earthquake. Some 20,000 to 30,000 people in the area were killed there. — jta