Urgent resources are still not getting to desperate survivors

TROOPS, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti yesterday but hundreds of thousands of quake victims still struggled to find water or food.

Help was not reaching many victims of last Tuesday’s quake — choked back by transport bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need.

“We don’t need military aid. What we need is food and shelter,” one man yelled at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his visit to Port-au-Prince. “We are dying,” a woman told him.