Desperate attempts to send emergency relief

DESPERATE efforts to get aid from the EU and other parts of the world distributed to the earthquake victims in Haiti are under way.

More than €5 million in emergency aid funds has been donated by the EU and the Netherlands so far, and every member state has offered help, from field hospitals and medical staff to aircraft and canine search teams.

But the first problem is how to get the considerable amount of aid that has arrived out to the estimated three million people who need it, EU expert on the ground in Haiti, Daniel Urena, said.