postquake

Poor get better health care in post-quake Haiti (AP)

May 11th, 2010

In this May 7, 2010 photo, doctors look at an X-ray using sunlight coming through a door's window in an emergency room at the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince.  From cracked hospitals to tent-camp clinics, aid groups are working furiously to treat patients amid failing generators and disappearing supplies while simultaneously struggling to build institutions from the rubble. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The 6-month-old baby boy was rushed to the field hospital near death in a donated ambulance, his body trembling in shock.


Tags: Haiti, better, health, Care, Poor, postquake

Coke, telecom lead investors to post-quake Haiti (AP)

April 1st, 2010

AP - As governments pledged billions in reconstruction aid for Haiti at a U.N. donor conference, leaders and businessmen said the key to improving lives in the hemisphere’s poorest country…

Chile military rolls out post-quake aid effort (AP)

March 4th, 2010

A government worker distributes aid in Concepcion, Chile, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The government deployed thousands of army and navy troops throughout the country's central coastal region, that was hit by an earthquake on Feb. 27, to contain looting and clear the way for aid to be distributed. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP - The Chilean military’s humanitarian aid effort hit the streets, carrying food and water to some areas that had seen little of either since a mammoth earthquake struck five…

Post-quake chaos, looting wound Chile’s pride (AP)

March 2nd, 2010

A police officer aims at people that were looting goods from a store damaged during the magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Talcahuano, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)AP - Chile’s president defended herself Tuesday against charges of government incompetence in a disaster that not only shattered lives and property but challenged the nation’s very identity.


Tags: wound, looting,…

Chile troops, police attack post-quake looting (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Rosa Neira, 36, stands in front of a damaged house after an earthquake in Pelluhue, some 322 kms, about 200 miles, southwest of Santiago, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. A 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Chile early Saturday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Security forces said Monday they arrested dozens of people for violating curfew after looters sacked virtually every market in this hard-hit city and Chile’s earthquake toll surpassed 700.…