Gunner98 said:
The US Medical Corps has 192,000 people, Canada has 2,800. I await their call for help!
Perhaps they will lend us some aircraft to move the DART!
Well techically we could drive down there...And take 1 Cdn Fd Hosp as well.
How many trucks does it take to move the complete FD hosp? Not for me, but for all those others who think its as easy as just getting into a bus and driving the 24-36 hours to the disaster zone.
edit to add:
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2005/09/01/pf-1196989.html
By MARIA McCLINTOCK, Parliamentary Bureau
CANADA has offered to supply the U.S. with troops, military engineers and water purification expertise to assist in relief efforts in devastated areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
Gen. Rick Hillier spoke to his U.S. counterpart Gen. Richard B. Myers late yesterday and made the offer, confirmed Steve Jurgutis, spokesman for Defence Minister Bill Graham.
America's Health Human Services department also contacted the Canadian Public Health Agency yesterday and asked for an inventory of medical supplies and personnel that could be provided if needed.
But Canada has yet to receive a request for assistance, said Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan.
"There may very well be things that they will need, whether in the short term or as the days go ahead. For example, clean water is at a premium now," McLellan told Sun Media last night.
McLellan called it an unfolding disaster of "enormous proportions."
"We are monitoring the situation very carefully ... we need to work closely with the United States so that we understand what they need the most, at the right time," she said.
'DIFFICULT TIME'
Prime Minister Paul Martin vowed Canada will provide any emergency help our U.S. neighbours need.
"During this most difficult time, Canada stands with you, and we are ready to provide whatever support you may require in the days, weeks and months ahead," he said.
Canadian Red Cross spokeswoman Suzanne Charest said relief workers will face some of the most difficult conditions ever.
"We are sending some of our most highly trained disaster response volunteers. It could be well over 100," said Charest, adding volunteers will begin leaving Canada as early as today.
"We know it's going to be a hardship posting. Conditions will be tough. They will be dealing with people who are grieving, who have faced an extraordinary amount of loss, so they have to be trained to deal with this sort of thing."
maria.mcclintock@tor.sunpub.com