希拉里承诺:美国将长期援助海地(视频)

You know, you talk about search and rescue, clearing roads, that sort of thing. There's also an enormous medical need there. What hospitals remain standing are jammed with people. Doctors without borders has got a field hospital set up. But what is the United States doing in terms of bringing down medical teams to help care for the many, many people that we see that are so desperately in need?

Our Ivan Watson yesterday had a story of a woman whose foot had been amputated in a collapse and she'd been sitting outside the hospital with a tourniquet around her leg for more than 24 hours.

Well, you're right, the hospitals in Port-au-Prince have collapsed. There's a few facilities still opening, but not really capable of handling the surge of need. The other groups are there.

The United States is bringing down medical personnel. We have some on the ground right now. I know that there are trauma teams that have been dispatched. We have the "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier on the way which will be able to provide some medical assistance. We've got the "USS Comfort" getting ready to leave, to get down there.

But the immediate trauma crisis, we're trying to meet with volunteer doctors, with medical -- with military doctors and others, because the -- as you're right. This is a large area involving many, many, many millions of people who have been cut off from access. Just getting to people to provide the medical assistance they need is proving to be very difficult.

And what about the security situation there, Madam Secretary? People have been pretty orderly up until this point. But we're starting to get now into, you know, the end of day two, beginning of day three. People will begin to get desperate as they realize that they don't have the food, medical, water supplies that they need. It's a place where security has been shaky anyways. What can the U.S. do to help provide security? Is that why the 82nd Airborne is going down?

Well, we also have a contingent of about 2,000 Marines going down. We're going to work with the international peacekeepers under the U.N. to supplement them in providing security.

You're right, that they've been basically the police force. Haiti doesn't have an army. They didn't have much of a police force. It's being rebuilt by the United Nations with our assistance.

This is a country that has suffered, you know, so many blows. Last year, it was four hurricanes. This year it's an earthquake. It is hard almost to imagine.

But the people of Haiti are resilient. They are a hopeful people. We are going to do everything we can to maintain order. As you say, so far it has been orderly. But in the wake of disasters like this, people do get desperate.

If you have a starving, you know, baby in your arms, you are going to try to find food wherever you can. So we're moving as quickly as possible. Once we can get communications up so we can tell people where to go, what kind of help they can expect, we'll be able to better manage the crisis.

And there's also that issue of the prison that partially collapsed and a lot of criminals roaming free now.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, thanks so much for spending the time this morning. We'll keep a close eye on what the U.S. is doing in relief efforts.

Good. John, one quick thing.

Yes.

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