HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — The Cuban medical brigade providing services in Port-au-Prince established a field hospital next to the one that was brought down by Tuesday’s earthquake in the Haitian capital.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Cuban specialists reportedly had provided medical care to 1,102 people, including 19 surgical operations, while 26 patients died including nine children.

According to a television report, another Cuban medical brigade created for emergency situations, is already in Haiti. They traveled on Wednesday to the Haitian capital taking medicines, clothes, food, saline solution and plasma bags.

Some of the members of the group who made their contribution in Pakistan after a devastating earthquake hit this Asian country a few years ago, compared the visible damages in Port-au-Prince to the most affected areas in Pakistan.

The television report announced that Joel Melo Torres, from the Faculty of Accounting and Finances of the University of Havana, who was on a post-graduate course at the University of Port-au-Prince, was receiving medical care from the Cuban doctors and was reported as seriously injured.

The 152 Cubans working on collaboration programs in the Haitian capital were reported to be in good health. Only two of them suffered minor injuries from the earthquake that hit that Caribbean nation on Tuesday. The head of the education brigade, Adalberto Bravo Carbonell suffered a dislocation to his right knee and Alina Almeida Rivera, also member of the brigade, had a minor lesion on her right leg.