January 25, 2010

Delayed Departure for Haiti

I just received the following email from the Utah Hospital Task Force...

"We have been issued a landing slot placeholder by UN Air Coordination. Understand that the limited slots are being sought after by governments and agencies all over the world. The landing slot allocation determines date/time of departure from SLC.

For three reason, departure will likely now be Thursday, or Friday, or even possibly Saturday:

1) USAID and UN would like some additional time to be ready to optimally deploy.
2) The orphan groups need more time if humanly possible to clear more orphans for extraction from the country.
3) Many of our volunteers have asked if they could get one or two more days to prepare, get off work, etc.

We are juggling all these concerns in working on the landing time."

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