From the Newsroom
São Paulo – As ANBA had anticipated on Monday (01), today the Brazilian government is going to send a shipping of medications to assist in the treatment of those hurt in the earthquake in Morocco on February 24. The Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty) recently confirmed the shipping.
Shipping will include three kits donated by the Health Ministry, each one containing 28 different kinds of medication. The total of medicine shipped will be 1,143 tonnes of painkillers, antibiotics, coagulants, among other medicine, enough to treat 9,000 people for three months.
Brazilian airline Varig will transport the material to Madrid, Spain, for free, from where it will be put on an Air Marroc flight to Rabat.
The earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit the rural area close to the city of Al-Hoceira on the Mediterranean coast, killing at least 571 people and leaving another 405 hurt.
