Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say.
The quake, which struck the southwest of the country, left at least 1,941 people dead and more than 6,900 injured. That toll is expected to rise, but search and rescue efforts are being hampered by a lack of resources and by heavy rains, which have caused mudslides that blocked roads in the region.At the main hospital in Jeremie, one of the harder hit cities, there were 84 people awaiting treatment at a facility that normally treats ten people in a day, CNN found during a visit on Tuesday.
"Aid has been flooding into the capital, Port-au-Prince, but getting it to affected areas has proven difficult due to mudslides."I'm in a lot of pain. We've been promised medicine. I went to look for it and I was told to wait," Marimene Jouesil told Reuters."Yesterday they distributed aid but I wasn't able to get anything."We have nothing to eat, we have nothing."The US Coast Guard is among a number of agencies on the ground assisting recovery efforts.
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