BBC News with Mary Small.
Emergency aid is finally reaching some parts of Haiti's devastated capital Port-au-Prince with relief workers and the US military distributing water and food to victims of Tuesday's earthquake. But demand is still far
outstrip
ping supply. Michelle Chouinard the head of Médecins Sans Frontières in Haiti, says that their problem is trying to get aid materials into the airport. She was asked what the charity was
managing to
achieve.
"There is still thousands of people waiting for treatment. We've done everything we can with the means that we have now, to treat as many people as possible. The priority right now is still to get people to surgery. So now we will be starting to set up our hospital, it's a hundred-bed-hospital with two operating theaters, in terms of care work and a emergency room and will be able to
hospitalize
the patients, following the surgical intervention.
Reporting now from the Haitian capital, here is Nick Davis.
In this highly Christian country, there are still songs of prays being sung in church, but also prayers for the dead and dying. The rescue operations continue to pull out survivors. But as the days, hours and minutes pass, hopes
fade
. This is the largest international rescue operation ever undertaken, but already some countries are pulling out, this likelihood of finding people alive
diminish
es.