DESPERATE, starving and increasingly angry, hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake victims were still struggling to find food and water yesterday despite international aid arriving at the country's airport. Six days after the quake that is estimated to have killed 200,000, only a trickle of aid was reaching those beyond the devastated capital Port-au-Prince.
MOVIE star John Travolta has flown his own jet airliner loaded with food aid and supplies into the Haitian capital, along with doctors and ministers from the controversial Church of Scientology. The 55-year-old Pulp Fiction actor piloted his Boeing 707 from Florida laden with six tonnes of ready-to-eat military rations to help survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake late on Monday. He also brought along "healers" who claim they can cure illness and injury by touching earthquake victims.
DESPERATE, starving and increasingly angry, Haitian earthquake victims were still struggling to find food and water yesterday despite international aid flowing in to the country. Six days after the quake that is estimated to have killed 200,000, only a trickle of aid was reaching those beyond the devastated capital Port-au-Prince.
HALF a million Haitians who fled their shattered capital after the earthquake are starting to return to a maze of rubble piles, refugee camps and food lines, complicating ambitious plans to build a better Haiti. Haitian and international officials had hoped to use the devastation of Port-au-Prince - a densely packed sprawl of winding roads and ramshackle slums that is home to a third of Haiti's nine million people - to build an improved capital and decentralise the country.
DESPERATE, starving and increasingly angry, Haitian earthquake victims were still struggling to find food and water yesterday despite international aid flowing in to the country. Six days after the quake that is estimated to have killed 200,000, only a trickle of aid was reaching those beyond the devastated capital Port-au-Prince. Transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys and the sheer scale of the catastrophe continued to frustrate the international relief operation.
A SANITATION crisis is threatening to spread malaria, cholera and other deadly diseases through chaotic camps packed with hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors. Shortages of food, clean water, adequate shelter and latrines are creating a potential spawning ground for epidemics in a country with an estimated one million people made homeless.
DESPERATE earthquake survivors took to the streets in Port-au- Prince yesterday in search of food and water as aid organisations struggled to get supplies through and fears spread of unrest among the Haitian people. Looters roamed in gangs, with young men and boys carrying machetes, in search of food and water.
THOUSANDS of Haitian babies are at risk of illness and death because wellwishers are supplying the wrong food, world health chiefs warned today. The main threat to babies aged up to six months is powdered milk mixed in unclean water, which can cause diarrhoea, dehydration and death. Bottles and teats which cannot be sterilised are also a risk, and a shipment of frozen milk, which could have spread infection after thawing, had to be turned away.
WHEN next at the supermarket check-out wondering where all the money has gone, or just casually skimming those headlines about food price protests in Haiti, the Philippines and Thailand, let's spare a thought for the Law of Unintended Consequence. Indeed, let's look at our own part in what has been described as "a crime against humanity". The cost of rice, a critical necessity for tens of millions round the world, has soared by 70 per cent since last year. Soya prices are up by 87 per cent. Wheat prices have rocketed 130 per cent. The unrest toppled the Haitian prime minister last week and the increasing scarcity of food and cost of subsidies is fast becoming a major political and social worry.
THE worst disaster they have ever faced. That was the assessment of the Haitian earthquake by the United Nations yesterday, as the relief operation began to gear up to reach millions still without food, water and shelter on the devastated Caribbean island. The UN itself has been touched by the tragedy. Last night it confirmed that the body of its Haiti mission chief, Hedi Annabi, had been found in the rubble of its own headquarters in Port-au-Prince. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the bodies of Annabi's deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, and the acting police commissioner, Doug Coates, had also been found.
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