Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said an emergency medical team will be sent to join a host of rescue teams, comprised of doctors, soldiers and humanitarian organizations from around the globe, to help rescue efforts in Haiti, which was hit by the devastating earthquake on Tuesday. Okada said the team, scheduled to embark from Narita on Saturday, will consist of around 20 members, including personnel from the Foreign Ministry. The team is initially scheduled to fly into Miami before arriving in Haiti on Sunday. It will join relief teams from the United States, China, France, Spain and Iceland who have already arrived in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the most densely populated area with around 2 million inhabitants and closest to the epicenter of Tuesday's devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake, to save trapped people, recover bodies and provide relief supplies to the affected people of Haiti. The earthquake, the most powerful in Haiti's history, has devastated its already impoverished infrastructure, with hospitals, electricity and water supplies being severely compromised, as well as the country's police and security forces.
