Focus now on Haiti's walking wounded

Aid flowed into Port Au Prince on Thursday, and relief workers began shifting their focus to longer-term challenges, primary among them providing shelter for as many as a million people displaced by last week's earthquake.

Those who have not joined the exodus into the countryside now face a daunting search for shelter in the capital, where half of all buildings are estimated to have collapsed. The danger of venturing back inside was underscored on Wednesday morning, when a strong aftershock struck, causing at least seven buildings to collapse. No one was reported killed by the new quake, but lack of sufficient medical treatment adds hundreds, if not thousands, to the daily death toll among the injured. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are taking refuge makeshift settlements that have sprung up across the capital, according to the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.
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