Bangladesh to send 30-member medical team to Haiti soon

Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- Bangladesh will send a 30-member medical team, comprising 20 doctors and 10 health technicians, soon to earthquake-hit Haiti, an official said on Saturday.

The decision was taken at a meeting held at the Health and Family Planning Ministry in the capital, Dhaka on the day with Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque in the chair.

“The minister has directed the authorities concerned to take all necessary steps to send the team by Monday along with necessary medicines,” a spokesperson of the ministry told BBN in Dhaka.

On Thursday, the Bangladesh government decided to send medical teams with adequate medicines, clothes and tea for the people of earthquake-hit Haiti.

The 7.0 magnitude quake struck shortly before 5 pm on Tuesday, and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological survey.

BBN/SS/SI/AD-16January10-10:06 pm (BST) 

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