Medical supplies in Haitian hospitals start to run out

Nancy Fleurancois, a volunteer doctor in Haiti's city of Jacmel, said basic medical supplies like antibiotics and analgesic are running out in some hospitals and clinics of Port-au-Prince and rural areas.

Fleurancois told Assistant Chief of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, Anthony Banbury, that her team assists some 500 people per day, most of them for the first time since the Jan. 12 quake.

During Banbury's visit to Jacmel, Fleurancois also told him that more than 20,000 people are homeless in that Haitian city.

However, some other aid workers have said that besides medicines, water, food and tents are the most needed things in Haiti.

Meanwhile, Joe Lowry, a spokesman for the International Red Cross, said that "the medical assistance in Haiti has been terribly affected by the earthquake", Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.news.xinhuanet.com for full version.