The first ship with humanitarian aid arrived on Thursday to a port in Haiti, hit by a devastating earthquake last week, a spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General said.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation on January 12, with estimates of the number of dead ranging up to 200,000. An estimated three million people have been left without shelter and countries around the world are sending aid.
"[The] First ship with 123 metric tons of humanitarian aid on board arrived to the reopened seaport of Port-au-Prince that was previously closed due to the damage from the earthquake," Martin Nesirki said.
He said some 150 planes with international humanitarian aid land daily at Port-au-Prince airport. An airport in the Haitian southern city of Jacmel, as well as the Dominican Republic's airports are also used for aid deliveries.
International rescuers continue working in the quake-stricken area, pulling people from rubble and providing medical assistance to those rescued.
Russian doctors in Haiti have treated more than 270 earthquake survivors in the past few days. Russia's emergencies ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday an additional team of 12 Russian doctors was sent to Haiti earlier in the day.
A new earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Haiti Wednesday morning.
Fearing aftershocks, thousands of people have been sleeping in streets since the January 12 quake.
UNITED NATIONS, January 21 (RIA Novosti)
