PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — There is no food or water for the 80 elderly people at the quake-damaged Port-au-Prince Municipal Hospice, just a mile from the airport where a massive international aid effort is taking shape.
One man has already died, and Administrator Jean Emmanuel says if no help arrives, “others won’t live until tonight.”
The dead man is 70-year-old Joseph Julien, who was pulled out from the partially collapsed hospice and died Thursday for lack of food. His rotting body lies on a mattress, nearly indistinguishable from the living around him.
Emmanuel said Sunday that even small quantities of drinking water or food would save lives if it arrived before the end of the day.
