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IIRC I heard anywhere from 400 - 1000!
7.0 Earthquake Hits Haiti Hospital Collapses
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I heard it was like 4000 prison escapees and one report said 7000. However many it was, was too many I am sure.
The last estimate I heard was from 4 days ago and it estimated that there were 194,000 injured people.
The idea of evacuating the injured to the US is not practical in my opinion, and should be stopped ASAP. Many hospitals are already in serious financial trouble because of uninsured patients, and this will just increase their financial deficit. :furious: With all the aid, it seems they could afford to set up well equipped field hospitals for the injured in Haiti and take care of them there.
http://tinyurl.com/o3jx9fo
Washington (CNN) -- Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients' care.
(snipped)
Earlier this week, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist formally asked the federal government to shoulder some of the cost of caring for Haitian patients.
In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday that CNN obtained, Crist asked that the federal government activate the National Disaster Medical System to provide reimbursement to Florida and other states for taking in these patients, who have no insurance.
Washington (CNN) -- Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack of space, a White House spokesman said Saturday in response to reports of a dispute over who would pay for patients' care.
(snipped)
Earlier this week, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist formally asked the federal government to shoulder some of the cost of caring for Haitian patients.
In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday that CNN obtained, Crist asked that the federal government activate the National Disaster Medical System to provide reimbursement to Florida and other states for taking in these patients, who have no insurance.
:waitasec: very good question....
:waitasec: does BO care?
:shocked2: :shocked2:
:snake: :snake:
:headache: :headache:
rayer:rayer:http://tinyurl.com/yz52aqj
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government will begin Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
WFP will roll out food at 16 distribution points across Port-au-Prince, the United Nations agency said.
Each location will receive 42 metric tons of rice each for the next two weeks, and each family will receive a 25-kilogram ration of rice.
Only women will be allowed into the distributions sites to collect the food, WFP said. Women are receiving the food vouchers because they tend to be responsible for the household food supply, said WFP spokesman Marcus Prior.
"Our long experience in food distribution tells us that by delivering food into the hands of women, it is more likely to be redistributed equitably among the household -- including the men," Prior said.
The agency said it will work with its partners to ensure that men in need of assistance are not excluded.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government will begin Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
WFP will roll out food at 16 distribution points across Port-au-Prince, the United Nations agency said.
Each location will receive 42 metric tons of rice each for the next two weeks, and each family will receive a 25-kilogram ration of rice.
Only women will be allowed into the distributions sites to collect the food, WFP said. Women are receiving the food vouchers because they tend to be responsible for the household food supply, said WFP spokesman Marcus Prior.
"Our long experience in food distribution tells us that by delivering food into the hands of women, it is more likely to be redistributed equitably among the household -- including the men," Prior said.
The agency said it will work with its partners to ensure that men in need of assistance are not excluded.
Prison supposedly had 4000 members/felons :crazy:
if half died, then there are 2000... toooooo many. :snooty:
there is a post somewhere on this thread that the prison originally had 4000.IIRC I heard anywhere from 400 - 1000!
But who knows, they also estimated at that time that 1200 escaped. How they got those numbers but could not know how many people they lost I have no idea :waitasec:
Those with very serious injuries have to be taken somewhere that is better then a sand with a tent.
The others I agree with you ...they can take care of.
they need to move them in-land where there was no devastation: create huge tents for their people to live.
and also be hospitalized. many can and should remain there.
But there are some who really need a hospital..
Felons should be left in the sun to cure....:snooty:
(I cant believe I said this)
USA is over extended in too many ways to care for felons.
Haitian Prison Destroyed, over 4500 prisoners escape
A report by Anderson Cooper on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqs0HdCNAOU
A report by Anderson Cooper on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqs0HdCNAOU
And Obama filled up a couple of cargo planes that fit about 200 That certainly do NOT look sick or wounded and sent them here to the USA. (they have no ID - how does he know what is coming in here ????) :doh: :doh:
Who is going to re-build Haiti??? :crazy:
The wounded cant :waitasec:
10 jailed Americans await fate in Haiti
Church members accused of trying to take children out of country :waitasec:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Ten Americans jailed amid allegations they were trafficking Haitian children are expected to meet a judge here again on Tuesday, a day after Haiti's prime minister said the missionaries knew that "what they were doing was wrong."
Prime Minister Max Bellerive also told The Associated Press that his country is open to having the Americans face prosecution in the United States, since most government buildings — including Haiti's courts — were crippled by the monster earthquake.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MORE AT LINK>>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35181444/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
WHAT????
msnbc.com Video Player
msnbc.com Video Player
Looks like Obama is not doing anything yet....LOOKS like it takes a Clinton to get the prisoners out.
BUT I AM GLAD they stopped them to make sure the kids are not being trafficked.
Their hearts were in the right place, and I hope it all works out for all concerned.
Church members accused of trying to take children out of country :waitasec:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Ten Americans jailed amid allegations they were trafficking Haitian children are expected to meet a judge here again on Tuesday, a day after Haiti's prime minister said the missionaries knew that "what they were doing was wrong."
Prime Minister Max Bellerive also told The Associated Press that his country is open to having the Americans face prosecution in the United States, since most government buildings — including Haiti's courts — were crippled by the monster earthquake.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MORE AT LINK>>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35181444/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
WHAT????
msnbc.com Video Player
msnbc.com Video Player
Looks like Obama is not doing anything yet....LOOKS like it takes a Clinton to get the prisoners out.
BUT I AM GLAD they stopped them to make sure the kids are not being trafficked.
Their hearts were in the right place, and I hope it all works out for all concerned.
http://tinyurl.com/qd6dcox
Please watch the video on the left hand side of the page too.
Personally, I think that these people are wrong in what they did. Their heart was in the right place IMO, but they were taking children who had one or both parents. :hand:
Please watch the video on the left hand side of the page too.
Personally, I think that these people are wrong in what they did. Their heart was in the right place IMO, but they were taking children who had one or both parents. :hand:
Anyone interested, there is an ongoing discussion about the Baptists kidnapping the 'orphans' on a thread in Crimes in the News.
here: Human Predators Stalk Haiti's Vulnerable Kids - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
here: Human Predators Stalk Haiti's Vulnerable Kids - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
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Haiti food convoy attacked; UN warns of volatility
By PAISLEY DODDS, AP
2 hours ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Twenty armed men blocked a road and tried to hijack a convoy of food for earthquake victims, but were driven off by police gunfire, U.N. officials said Tuesday as they warned of security problems in a still-desperate nation.
The attack on the convoy as it carried supplies from an airport in the southern town of Jeremie underscored the shaky safety in the streets that has added to Haitians' frustration at the slow pace of aid since the Jan. 12 earthquake
Very good AP article - more at link:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100131/CB.Haiti.Earthquake/
By PAISLEY DODDS, AP
2 hours ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Twenty armed men blocked a road and tried to hijack a convoy of food for earthquake victims, but were driven off by police gunfire, U.N. officials said Tuesday as they warned of security problems in a still-desperate nation.
The attack on the convoy as it carried supplies from an airport in the southern town of Jeremie underscored the shaky safety in the streets that has added to Haitians' frustration at the slow pace of aid since the Jan. 12 earthquake
Very good AP article - more at link:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100131/CB.Haiti.Earthquake/
A snip from this article that I find insulting after all that we have been doing for them:
The government has asked private aid organizations register and send e-mails detailing what they're doing and where. The goal is to coordinate food being distributed by non-governmental organizations, though not U.N efforts. Haitian officials complain some areas are receiving multiple rations while others have nothing."It is true we are in need," said Sen. Jean Joel Joseph. "But don't treat us like dogs ... as if we are animals."
>>>>>>>>>from this article:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100131/CB.Haiti.Earthquake/[/QUOTE]
Maybe they want us to leave them in the hands of their felons who are on the loose and then they will feel better.:waitasec:
Waite Obama let hundreds of them into Florida, the photos I had seen in the cargo plane did not look like it was carrying wounded people, they looked fine to me...Who will be rebuilding Haiti?
Are those that are landing getting lie detector tests to see if some amongst them are from the prison that collapsed? :waitasec:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100204/wl_afp/haitiquake
The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets. More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a planetary scale" and detailed the tragic toll suffered by his people.
"There are more than 200,000 people who have been clearly identified as people who are dead," he said in an interview with AFP, adding that another 300,000 injured had been treated, 250,000 homes had been destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost.
At least 4,000 amputations have also been carried out due to horrific crush injuries -- a shocking figure which is likely to strain the impoverished nation's already meager resources for years to come.
Bellerive said he has proposed the formation of an "emergency government" in Haiti to focus on the crisis, but insisted that the authorities, devastated as their ranks have been by the disaster, remained "in control of the situation."
Despite a massive aid operation, a lack of coordination and the sheer extent of the damage have hampered the distribution of food and water leading to mounting tensions among a million people left homeless.
"The Haitian government has done nothing for us, it has not given us any work. It has not given us the food we need," Sandrac Baptiste said bitterly as she left her makeshift tent to join angry demonstrations Wednesday.
more at link
The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets. More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake, Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a planetary scale" and detailed the tragic toll suffered by his people.
"There are more than 200,000 people who have been clearly identified as people who are dead," he said in an interview with AFP, adding that another 300,000 injured had been treated, 250,000 homes had been destroyed and 30,000 businesses lost.
At least 4,000 amputations have also been carried out due to horrific crush injuries -- a shocking figure which is likely to strain the impoverished nation's already meager resources for years to come.
Bellerive said he has proposed the formation of an "emergency government" in Haiti to focus on the crisis, but insisted that the authorities, devastated as their ranks have been by the disaster, remained "in control of the situation."
Despite a massive aid operation, a lack of coordination and the sheer extent of the damage have hampered the distribution of food and water leading to mounting tensions among a million people left homeless.
"The Haitian government has done nothing for us, it has not given us any work. It has not given us the food we need," Sandrac Baptiste said bitterly as she left her makeshift tent to join angry demonstrations Wednesday.
more at link
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti...5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNhdHRvcm5leXNheXM-
Attorney says US Baptists charged in child case
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.
Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince
<<<<<<<<<<<<full article at link>>>>>>>>>>>>
Attorney says US Baptists charged in child case
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.
Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince
<<<<<<<<<<<<full article at link>>>>>>>>>>>>
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