French Ambassador to Bulgaria Etienne de Poncins (left) and Bulgaria's Deputy Foreign Minister Raykov (middle) are pictured here as they send off the Bulgarian relief team to Haiti at Sofia Airport. Photo by BGNES
A team from Bulgaria’s Military Medical Academy has arrived in Haiti to take part in the earthquake relief operations.
The team, which is comprised of 3 doctors and 2 nurses, all of whom have so far joined missions of NATO units in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, will operate within the French armed forces at the field hospital on the island of Martinique.
Bulgaria’s Military Medical Academy is also preparing a second team for Haiti relief but it is still unclear if there will be sufficient funding in order to send it to the Caribbean.
Bulgaria’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Marin Raykov, declared that the second team might be sent to Haiti depending on the development of the situation and the performance of the first Bulgarian relief team.
For the last fifty years the Military Medical Academy has deployed nearly 3,000 medics to help people at different hotspots around the world.