Food and shelter remain the priorities for assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in need.
• Health priorities include mobile clinics for first aid, psychosocial support and post-operative care.
Cases of tetanus have been reported. Suspected cases of measles were confirmed as chicken
pox.
• The WASH Cluster is reaching almost 500,000 people a day with water.
• The port has been declared unsafe for incoming ships following an in-depth assessment. Port-au-
Prince airport is operating at peak capacity with an average of 120 incoming flights per day,
although ‘no-shows’ are becoming an issue.
• The Government reports that some 340,000 people have now left Port-au-Prince with the largest
number of arrivals in Artibonite department.
• Crowd control requirements at food distribution sites remain a concern. Inflated prices for food and
other essentials are contributing to rising tensions among the population.
An isolated case of typhoid has been reported.
ACF and Concern are targeting an estimated 40,000 children for treatment of severe acute malnutrition.
Approximately 1,000 children requiring artificial feeding have been identified.
This looks to be a very useful website for raw data:
http://haiti.oneresponse.info
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