UN launches Haiti earthquake relief appeal

The UN appealed for $ 562M (346m) which was to help the victims of the earthquake that hit Tuesday in Haiti.
Humanitarian owner John Holmes UN said the money will be used to help three million people for six months.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the trip to Haiti on Saturday.
The earthquake, provided that 50,000-100,000 people were killed and rescuers are still looking increasingly desperate survivors.
BBC’s Matthew Price, said outside the ruins of a nursing school in the capital Port-au-Prince, said a woman employee that 260 deaths and up to 25 people still living in the wreckage.
Nobody is responsible. The President is asleep at the airport with some journalists and aid workers.
This morning, I stood on the ruins of the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Senate – where a couple of senators were killed when the earthquake struck. Their bodies were removed and placed in body bags. The state representatives are literally rotting on the sidewalk late.
This is a time for citizens of their very limited resources. You have people trying to regular injections for family members who managed to die slowly, but not a single doctor or nurse at General Hospital.
A rescue team of Brazil tried to reach the victims, but progress is painfully slow, our correspondent adds.
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, quoted by the AFP news agency said earlier that there are more than 15,000 jobs have been recovered and reburied.
K. Holmes, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said managing a major effort has been made and officers were installed all forces to help too.
Being ‘Almost half of them, as is customary in such cases, food, emergency food assistance, he said.
This is between $ 20 and $ 50 for health, water and sanitation, nutrition, emergency shelter, early recovery and agriculture. A total of about 360 million U.S. dollars so far needed for relief, but only a part of this amount should be included in an emergency call.
Mr. Holmes said earlier that 30% of buildings damaged in Port-au-Prince, the rate of 50% in some areas.
The Pan American Health Organization estimates that the number of dead could reach 100,000.
Correspondents say the survivors are increasingly desperate and angry that the damage to infrastructure bottlenecks and delays in relief.
Many are not even one days food and shelter ruined capital.
The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was distributing food and medicines in development, but correspondents say there is little evidence of direct and coordinated relief efforts in the field.
Nick the BBC Davis in Port-au-Prince, said the convoy, but he saw people leaving the city in search of food, water and medicines.

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