Haitian pensioners struggles to live

The Haiti earthquake has left elderly residents at a nursing home to fend for themselves. A week has passed, but there is still no large-scale food or water distribution in the area.

Elderly men and women have spent a week all but abandoned in the aftermath of the earthquake.

This nursing home is in downtown Port-au-Prince. It has shade, beds and some medicine, but still little water and no food.

Elderly men and women have spent a week all but abandoned in the aftermath of the earthquake.

The worst-off lay motionless, struggling to breathe. Staff say it's a sign they are nearing death.

Nursing Home manager Morancy Benjamin said, "Two elderly people died yesterday evening. I think they died of hunger."

Morancy Benjamin says the town hall has promised to send aid, though it was not clear when it might arrive.

Earthquake survivors have helped to collect beds, so the elderly won't lie on the ground among the running rats. Others have hung sheets from tree branches to provide them with shade.

The nursing home is barely a kilometer from the international airport, where the international community is struggling to funnel aid. And for many in the nursing home and elsewhere in Haiti, it may come too late.