Latest News from India - Typhoon Haiyan: Plight of survivors 'bleak' despite aid effort

divspan class=BodyText readability=19Aid workers struggling to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines have described the situation as bleak - one week after the storm tore into the country.pA spokesman for Medecins Sans Frontieres said the logistical issues of distributing aid were enormous./ppHowever, correspondents in the ruined city of Tacloban say US military aircraft are beginning to bring in aid./ppA Philippine minister told the BBC the official death toll had reached 3,422./ppHenry Gray, of Medecins Sans Frontieres, said workers who had visited Guiuan, in eastern Samar, described the situation faced by the 45,000 people there as 'bleak'./pp'What we saw there was that a public hospital had been, basically, destroyed,' he said./ppMr Gray added that local officials had asked the charity to support a local private clinic./pp'We are moving this as quickly as we possibly can, but the logistical issues are enormous and they shouldn't be underestimated,' he said./pp/p/span/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center