MEXICO CITY, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican Red Cross has contributed 45,000 tons of aid to help earthquake-hit Haiti, Vice President of the Mexican organization Fernando Suinaga Cardenas said on Thursday.
He said that the organization had set up 486 centers for receiving aid across Mexico's 32 states and that the state-run Family Integration Directorate was also receiving donations in central state Hidalgo.
Earlier on Thursday, The Mexican Red Cross officials said that an aircraft with one ton of Red Cross aid, and one ton contributed by the Mexican police, had left a military air base for Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti.
He called for Mexicans to donate tinned food, bottled water and medicines, as being the most important. He also called for plates, drinking vessels, toilet paper, tampons, pasta and toothbrushes.
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