Huge Hurdles
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As food supplies dwindle, looters flourish and aid piles up at
outposts, relief agencies are trying to cope with a disaster of an
almost unimaginable scale
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Brian Braiker
Newsweek
Updated: 7:29 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2004
Dec. 29 - Steve Francone was driving to the southern region of Sri
Lanka early Thursday morning to help set up medical camps. "In a lot of
these areas," the aid worker tells NEWSWEEK over a satellite phone,
"supplies have been lifted in, but they have no distribution channels.
They have medical supplies, but no doctors." How do you heal the sick
and wounded with medicine but no doctors? How do you send food to the
poor without roads? These are familiar riddles for Francone, who says
that "the big trucks will come and the aid will be given to areas close
to the road. The food isn't going into the more remote areas. They're
completely isolated and there's unequal distribution."
Brian Braiker
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