The first planeload of medicines donated by UK drug companies has in Haiti, with emergency kits to treat as many as 20,000 people
UK drug companies have pledged £5.6m in donations, with more flights planned carrying antibiotics, pain killers and anti-fungals, among other supplies.
These have been specifically requested by Haitian authorities, organisers say.
The aid arrived as the Disasters Emergency Committee said its Haiti appeal had now raised £38m in the UK.
The flight took off from Newquay in Cornwall on Wednesday and landed in Haiti on Thursday afternoon.
Anthony Dunnett is president of International Health Partners (IHP) - the organisation that co-ordinates offers of medical aid to disaster zones and works closely with local and international aid bodies.
He said: "We have to ensure that the medicines we send to Haiti are exactly what are needed by doctors on the spot so that patients gain maximum benefit.
"Arrangements are in place to ensure that these supplies reach patients with the minimum of delay once the aircraft has landed."
Other supplies being flown in from the UK include toilet and water treatment kits sent from the Red Cross base at Warmley, South Gloucestershire, on Wednesday.
A Red Cross spokesman said it was also including advice leaflets on how to minimise risks while cooking and other basic hygiene measures.
Diggers are also being sent to construct latrines.
Seven hundred ShelterBoxes are on their way from the UK to Port-au-Prince.
The supplies include 40 tonnes of aid, with enough shelter for 7,000 people.
Authorities in Haiti have announced plans to house 400,000 earthquake survivors in tented villages outside the capital, Port-au-Prince.
An estimated 1.5 million people were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000.
At least 75,000 bodies have so far been buried in mass graves, the government has said. Many more remain uncollected in the streets.
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