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Quake survivors desperate for help
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In Port-au-Prince, the situation is becoming desperate for hundreds of thousands of quake survivors. Shortages of food, water, and medical staff are pushing the city to the verge of breakdown.
There was no food, water or medicine on Sunday for the 85 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home.
One man died, and more will follow soon unless water and food arrive immediately.
Jean Emmanuel, Hospital Administrator, said, "Now our old people survive, but some of them cannot even breathe normally. I do not think that they will survive another day without drinking or eating."
There is chaos across Port-au-Prince.
Haitians are growing more frustrated and scuffles break out at distribution locations, as food, water and supplies were coming into the city.
Quake Victim, said, "The way they just dump the food from the helicopters, it's awful. Most people here don't get any food, people start fighting, banging heads and breaking bones. It's complete disorder."
The UN is feeding 40-thousand people a day and hopes to increase that to one-million within two weeks.
But logistical logjams keep relief from reaching most victims, many sheltering in makeshift camps on streets strewn with debris and decomposing bodies.
There's a great need for medical services to be restored immediately to prevent an epidemic, as 80 percent of doctors in Port-au-Prince were killed or injured during the quake.
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