A SIX-MEMBER delegation from the organisation ‘Volunteer Doctors Cyprus’ departs today for Haiti to provide medical care and pharmaceutical aid to the people affected by last month’s catastrophic earthquake.

The mission comprises Dr. Marios Theodorou, Dr. Olga Sophocleous, Nicolas Ioannou, Constantina Rousia, Nicolas Papachrisostomou and CNA photo reporter Katia Christodoulou.

The aim of the mission is to offer immediate medical assistance and to investigate the possibility of granting assistance on a long-term basis, by creating infrastructure such as a medical centre, a boarding house for orphan children and food aid programmes or help in any other way possible, a statement by the organisation said.

The mission departs this morning via Paris and the Dominican Republic. It will remain in Haiti for ten days and is sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

CyprusMail, February 3, 2010