Food, water and medical supplies have not yet reached some survivors 12 days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 111,000 people
International aid workers in Haiti are looking to speed up their relief efforts Sunday, after criticism that food, water and medical supplies have not yet reached survivors 12 days after a devastating earthquake.
Rajiv Shah, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told Reuters news agency the disaster is "unparalleled" and his organization is "never going to meet the need as quickly as we'd like."
Up to 1.5 million Haitians lost their homes in the earthquake.
Makeshift tent camps have sprung up across Port-au-Prince, the capital, where hurt and homeless people are living with little or no water, food, or sanitation.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports the number of people leaving the capital and going to Haiti's interior is increasing.
The Haitian government called off search and rescue operations on Friday, but international rescue teams pulled a man from the rubble of a grocery store on Saturday in Port-au-Prince.
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