|  Nine Red Cross volunteers, including doctors, nurses and emergency rescue experts, have flown out to Haiti to set up and run a field hospital donated by the Spanish government.
They travelled out from Torrejón de Ardoz military air base outside Madrid yesterday on a cargo plane also transporting enough medical supplies to treat 30,000 people.
The field hospital will be set up in Gonaive, where the team will join up with three French volunteers - one doctor, and two nurses.
Around 60% of the local population is reported to be suffering from a variety of ailments caused by the recent floods such as diarrhoea, typhus and tetanus.
The team will be rotated every four weeks and the field hospital is expected to remain in place for a maximum of three months. |
