Haiti to Resettle 400,000 Quake Victims to Camps

Posted: Jan 21, 2010 7:55 PM
Updated: Jan 21, 2010 7:57 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti says it will resettle 400,000 earthquake survivors from its stricken capital to temporary camps outside town.

The chief of staff to President Rene Preval tells The Associated Press that the government is concerned about sanitary conditions in the hundreds of tent cities that have sprung up in Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 quake. Doctors have warned of outbreaks of disease among the hundreds of thousands in the overcrowded camps.

Fritz Longchamp said Thursday that buses would start moving people from the capital in a week to 10 days, once the new camps are ready.

The Haitian government has estimated that 200,000 people died in the quake, 250,000 were injured and 2 million of Haiti's 9 million people are homeless.

 

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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