Texas team preparing for Haiti mission told to stand down by the U.N.
By DALE LEZON HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jan. 18, 2010, 7:37AM
A Texas search and rescue team and other similar units mobilized to help earthquake victims in Haiti have been told they are not needed.
Members of Texas Task Force 1 have been on standby in Houston since Thursday to head to the devastated island nation.
But the United Nations mission in the country has declared the search and rescue teams already in the nation are sufficient to handle to the task and the Texas team and others prepared to deploy would not be needed.
The Texas unit, which has been on standby at Ellington Field in southeast Houston, was made up of 80 members including doctors and engineers. Four dogs were also part of the team.
I was watching Anderson Cooper 360 last night reporting from Haiti with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and he was ranting about the fact that critical medical equipment and aid was being diverted to the Dominican Republic. This aid diversion would add an additional day to the arrival of necessary medical equipment. They were asking the question, "Who is making these decisions to divert necessary medical care to the Dominican Republic?"
ReplyDelete23 minutes and 40 seconds into last nights AC360:
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/podcasts/ac360/site/2010/01/18/cooper.podcast.monday.cnn
Sounds like a population control tactic to let the people of Haiti parish from 'preventable deaths'.