Atv Salt Spreader - Salt Lake City

50 000 and 250 dead, 000 wounded in Haiti in Jimaní

About 50,000 people died and 250,000 were injured in the 7 degree earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, reported yesterday by the Haitian Minister of Health, Alex Larsen.


According to preliminary estimates by the Directorate of Civil Protection, between 750,000 and one million people left homeless, Larsen said at a news conference.


These are the first figures provided by the Haitian government since the devastating quake, which according to international organizations affected three million people, one third of the country's population America's poorest.

The minister said the government has already set the priorities for action against the tragedy: public health, humanitarian aid, temporary shelter, logistics to provide water and sanitation, and reconstruction. From the Central Directorate of Judicial Police, Larsen stressed the importance of removing roads decomposing bodies to avoid epidemics.


Corpses by doquier.El body lies beside the road linking the capital of Haiti. It a woman leaning back with his left hand on the forehead. ¨ He could have fallen from a truck that was carrying bodies to a mass grave nearby? Apparently nobody cares.
buses whiz by without stopping.


So is death in Haiti. The dead often _víctimas coups, famines and disasters naturales_ not shock the living. Especially now. People cover their noses with their shirts, say a prayer and move on. We must survive.


But now, the demands of death beyond the resources of life in this devastated country. The morgue is running out of space. The government does not have enough trucks to collect the dead. A Red Cross ran out of bags for corpses, but more bodies are covered in sheets, or completely exposed. Haitian President Rene Preval said this week 7,000 of the 45,000 or 50,000 earthquake victims were buried in mass graves in recent days. Other mourners try to bury their loved ones on their own. Giant Pit


At one site, the dead are in a big pile, mixed with red soil and debris.
In another, the bloated bodies are giant pits. A tractor expected close but no driver. Four of the pits are still open, waiting for the new bodies that will surely come.


Given the chaos in Haiti these days, the final resting place for hundreds, perhaps thousands of people is a quiet oasis, and even beautiful. It lies between a calm blue bay and a range of hills.
The only indication that the frenetic city of Port is nearby is a persistent brown haze, the pollution of the city, which remains on the bay.