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Aid fails to reach the needy

2010-01-16 13:15 BJT

Special Report: Strong Quake Hits Haiti |

 

International governments might be pouring in relief supplies and medical teams, but they're facing huge logistical hurdles because of the sheer scale of destruction. Aid is still not reaching hundreds of thousands of victims.

At the Port-au-Prince airport, now under the control of the US military, planes are arriving every 20 minutes.

But in streets strewn with rubble, garbage and rotting bodies, Haitians say they've received nothing.

Resident, said, "What we are going through is so horrible. We are left with nothing. No one has come to see us yet. We see flights with relief goods landing all the time, but we have got no aid at all."

International governments might be pouring in relief supplies and medical teams, but they're facing huge logistical hurdles because of the sheer scale of destruction. Aid is still not reaching hundreds of thousands of victims.
International governments might be pouring in relief supplies and medical
teams, but they're facing huge logistical hurdles because of the sheer
scale of destruction. Aid is still not reaching hundreds of thousands
of victims.