Updates From Pure Water
More than 150,000 quake victims have been buried by the government, an official said Sunday, but she said that doesn’t count the bodies still in wrecked buildings, buried or burned by relatives or dead in outlying quake areas. “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble,” said Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said.
More than 235,000 people have left Port-au-Prince using the free transportation provided by the Government. The largest influx, some 62,000 people, is in Artibonite department.
As many as 1 million people — one person in nine across the entire country — need to find new shelter, the United Nations estimates, and there are too few tents, let alone safe buildings, to put them in.
Ready-to-eat meals are needed for the short term to cover food needs.
There are now more than 500 relief organisations working to help those affected by the earthquake and the number is rising.
Water continues to be distributed daily at 115 sites in Port-au-Prince reaching an estimated 235,000 people, according to the WASH cluster. An assessment of 15 makeshift sites found that 14 sites had water and only one did not. The cluster plans to increase water distribution to reach 500,000 people daily with water,sanitation and hygiene facilities and services.
- Partnership with Pure Water Haiti under development to serve 70,000 people in Cite Soleil with water tankering, hygiene kit distribution and hygiene promotion
- The number of people living in temporary shelter sites in Port-au-Prince could be as high as 800,000, according to the Shelter Cluster.
- Water continues to be distributed daily at 115 sites in Port-au-Prince reaching an estimated 235,000 people.
- The number of injured people that need surgical interventions is diminishing, according to WHO/PAHO.
- Traffic congestion is major issue in Port-au-Prince, especially in the area of the airport.
