By NNN-Bernama,
Seoul : South Korea pledged US$100,000 worth of emergency
aid to Haiti on Thursday to help the Caribbean state cope with a massive outbreak of cholera and the aftermath of Hurricane Tomas, Yonhap news agency reported.
The hurricane and the cholera epidemic added to woes in Haiti, which was struggling to recover from a devastating earthquake in January. As of Monday, 544 people had died of cholera and some 8,000 people were infected with the virus.
The hurricane left 21 people dead, 36 injured, seven others missing and about 1,000 homes destroyed, the ministry said.
Seoul also pledged US$50,000 each to Saint Lucia and Costa Rica, both devastated by the hurricane.
The disaster left 14 people dead, some 1,000 homeless and 400 homes destroyed in Saint Lucia. In Costa Rica, 28 were killed, 12 were missing and about 4,000 have been left homeless, according to the ministry.
South Korea has been stationing about 240 troops, mostly engineers, in Haiti since late February as part of the U.N. mission to help the country recover from the January quake.
The unit is stationed in Leogane, one of the hardest-hit regions.