Head of the UN mission in Haiti dies in earthquake.

LONDON, January 14 (Itar-Tass) -- The head of the United Nations
Stabilization Mission in Haiti has died in the earthquake that has hit the
country, the Sky News television channel reports with reference to a
statement made by Haitian President Rene Preval.

. Russia sends relief aid & airmobile hospital to quake-hit Haiti.

MOSCOW, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Ministry for Emergency
Situations is sending an airmobile hospital to Haiti hit by a devastating
earthquake, the Ministry's information department told Itar-Tass.
The Ministry's representative said that an IL-76 plane of the Russian
Ministry for Emergency Situations would carry an airmobile hospital and 45
people, including 20 doctors, to Haiti.
The airmobile hospital has 50 beds and can function autonomously. It
has an intensive care ward, an operating room, a diagnostics and
consulting unit, ultrasonography, an X-ray examination unit,
electrocardiography and a blood test laboratory. An intensive therapy ward
with the number of beds varying from six to ten can be deployed if
necessary.
The hospital's doctors have worked in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan,
China and South Ossetia. They did surgical operations in field conditions.
In a telephone conversation held earlier Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev told Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu to
render assistance to the people hit in the Haitian earthquake, the Kremlin
press service reports.
Shoigu said that the Ministry for Emergency Situations would send a
plane to Haiti, following orders from the Russian president. The plane
will deliver an airmobile hospital and relief aid, including food and
medical supplies, to the quake-stricken nation.

.No Russians reportedly hurt in Haitian earthquake.

CARACAS, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - No Russian nationals have reportedly
been hurt in the earthquake that hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
" When the news about the devastating earthquake in Haiti and the
Dominican republic was received on January 12, the Russian Embassy in
Venezuela which overseas relations with Haiti and the Dominican Republic
took all the necessary steps to make inquiries about the fate of Russian
citizens who stay in the territories of these countries,"
Minister-Counsellor Vladimir Tokmakov, Russia's Charge d'Affaires in
Venezuela, told Itar-Tass.
He said that the Russian embassy was receiving information
round-the-clock from various sources and was maintaining working contact
with the Haitian embassy in Venezuela. Attempts are being made to get in
touch with Russia's Honorary Consul in Haiti. According to reports coming
from the Russian Honorary Consul in Santo-Domingo, the Dominican Republic,
the situation there is calm, and there's no panic among Russian tourists.
As for Haiti, five Russian nationals who are now staying in Haiti as
part of a police contingent of the United Nations Stabilization Mission
were not hurt in the powerful earthquake, Vladimir Tokmakov went on to
say. He said that the Russian policemen were in touch with the press
centre of the Russian Interior Ministry.
Tokmakov added that attempts were being made to find the whereabouts
of the family of Russian national Oleg Zhurayev. They left for Haiti on
January 2. Communications haven't yet been restored in Haiti and that's
creating a big problem, Tokmakov explained. He said that the Russian
embassy was giving information to all Russian organizations and nationals
who get in touch with it.
In the meantime, the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations is
sending an airmobile hospital to Haiti hit by a devastating earthquake,
the Ministry's information department told Itar-Tass.
An IL-76 plane will carry an airmobile hospital and 45 people,
including 20 doctors, to Haiti.
The airmobile hospital has 50 beds and can function autonomously. It
has an intensive care ward, an operating room, a diagnostics and
consulting unit, ultrasonography, an X-ray examination unit,
electrocardiography and a blood test laboratory. An intensive therapy ward
with the number of beds varying from six to ten can be deployed if
necessary.
The hospital's doctors have worked in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan,
China and South Ossetia. They did surgical operations in field conditions.

.Aftershocks in Haiti to continue for a month- Russian scientist.

MOSCOW, January 14 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian Academy of Sciences
predicts that aftershocks will continue in Haiti for a month. Dozens of
underground tremors have already occurred after a powerful earthquake hit
the country on Tuesday. These aftershocks have been registered by the
Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to Yevgeny Rogozhin, the deputy director of the Institute of
Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences, strong
aftershcoks would continue for a month.
"More than fifty tremors have already occurred. They are quite strong.
They have been registered by the geophysical service of the Russian
Academy of Sciences," Rogozhin said in a live interview with the Russia-24
televison news channel on Wednesday.
"I think that powerful aftershocks which may even cause destruction
will continue in Haiti for a month. After that things will start getting
calmer. I think that everything will quiet down during the year.

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