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Josh White, an American doctor, said his mobile unit, comprising a general surgeon, five orthopaedists and a urologist, planned to stay for the next six months as the town's homeless try to rebuild their lives.

Wendy Batson, executive director of the US branch of Handicap International which is racing to supply temporary prosthetics, said the disabling injuries "surpass anything we've ever seen anywhere else."

Haitian police shot two people in the head as scavengers picked through the debris in the ruined heart of Port-au-Prince, while thousands of people joined a mass exodus from squalid tent camps.

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"Right now, the needs of the people are survival and immediate recovery," said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, who is director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Haiti's President Rene Preval, in a statement, urged the world to urgently airlift 200,000 more tents and 36 million ready-to-eat packs before the rainy season starts in May.

In the town of Leogane, 90 per cent destroyed by the quake, some good news has emerged: it has acquired a new hospital after more than two years without, after international aid teams set up operations at a nursing school.

As the sun sets, looters appear. Shots ring out in the distance as shadowy figures flee, clutching bolts of fabric, soda bottles,womens timberland shoes, pants - anything they can get hold of.

Merchants are risking their lives trying to protect what little they have left.

"There is a terrible humanitarian crisis that we are dealing with. We don't yet feed all of the people. We don't yet have water for them.

Two weeks after the disaster which killed around 150,000 people and left a million homeless, fresh looting and chaotic food handouts underlined the grim conditions those who lived through 7.0 magnitude quake.

Health Minister Alex Larsen said that tents were being readied for 400,000 people at mini-villages that will initially hold 20,000, and in the long term accommodate around one million.

"We must work to ensure that every resource committed, every relief worker, every vehicle, every dollar is used as effectively as possible,ugh boots," he said.

"We have so many who have been grievously injured. Those who have received medical care, many of them have amputated limbs and there are no prosthetics. There are no places to sleep."

Bulldozers cleared corpse-filled houses elsewhere in the city centre, but hopes have faded of finding more miracle survivors in the rubble. The last, a man who survived for 11 days by drinking cola, was rescued on Saturday.

The United Nations said more than 235,000 Haitians have used free buses to flee the filth in Port-au-Prince for more hygienic camps outside the capital. Others have used private transport.

Rescuers led by 20,000 US troops have struggled to get enough aid into the capital Port-au-Prince and flattened towns near the quake's epicentre, stoking security fears.

Quake-hit Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled on Tuesday to rebuild their lives.

"Whatever we do, it doesn't matter - they are *******," a UN trooper said as others sprayed pepper spray and fired rubber bullets into the air.

"We are still in an emergency," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the meeting.

Donor countries agreed to hold a full conference on aid to Haiti at the UN headquarters in New York in March.

Next comes the phase of long-term reconstruction, he told foreign media in Tokyo. "This is going to be more than 10 years of efforts."

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said the world must hammer out a long-term strategy after meeting the Caribbean country's immediate needs for food, water, shelter and health care.

At the presidential palace, a daily aid hand-out descended into chaos as a small team of Uruguayan UN peacekeepers were confronted by 4,ugg boots cheap,000 desperately hungry Haitians.

Haitians face a decade to rebuild lives
DAVE CLARK January 26, 2010

AFP

International powers meeting in Montreal to discuss aid and reconstruction for Haiti - one of the world's poorest nations even before the quake - heard Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper deliver a similar timeframe.


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