Madrid, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) Non government organization Doctors Without Borders, founded in France in 1971, accused the US Army of stopping and creating difficulties for landing planes with aid for the people of Haiti after the quake swept the Caribbean country over a week ago.
DWB announced that the US troops in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, are detouring all the planes with supplies to the Dominican Republic.
Patients who were rescued from among the rubble and now need urgent surgery or dialysis treatment are dying because of the delays in the arrival of provisions and equipments.
Jaume Codina, Director of Communication of DWB, regarded the Americans' steps in the airport as a crime, since the humanitarian help arrived to the center of the catastrophe up to 24 hours after the quake.
Codina told Spanish news agency EFE the DWB doctors are working in 10 operating rooms (OR), one of them in a container.
"There is no fluidity, and we want to know which priorities were given to the US troops to control it," he stated.
He said that one of the planes was bringing material to take care of many people who had been crushed.
According to the organization, many patients rescued are in great risk of dying from blood poisoning and the effects of having been crushed, and could die from kidney insufficiency.
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