(CNN Philippines) — The Philippine Red Cross is set to deploy three teams to Nepal in the aftermath of the devastating quake that left eight million affected.
A 13-member Emergency Response Unit Search & Rescue team — the first of three teams to be deployed — is set to arrive in Kathmandu on the night of Wednesday (April 29).
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said the team is well trained in disaster response, collapsed structure search and rescue, firefighting, urban search and rescue, mass casualty incidents, water search, and has been exposed to major disaster response in the previous years.
“Two search and rescue teams and a team leader are ready to go for an initial deployment of two weeks in Nepal and is now having their final briefing,” PRC Secretary-General Gwendolyn Pang said in a post on her Facebook timeline on Wednesday.
In a briefing held Tuesday, PRC Chairman Richard Gordon reminded the team of volunteers and staff to be sent to Nepal to show compassion and care to the people who have lost practically everything.
The Red Cross promised to continue to send more of its resources to Nepal as part of its humanitarian work.
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In a report published by Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, a total of 30 Filipinos from the local and international Red Cross offices are being dispatched this week.
Many of the aid workers being sent to Nepal were a part of the relief activities after Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) hit central Philippines in November 2013.
The 7.8-magnitude quake in Nepal on April 25 left more than 4,800 people dead, more than 9,200 injured, and one million children urgently in need of help.
