With so many quake victims needing immediate medical attention, hospitals and other medical faciliti

(20 Jan 2010) HEADLINE: Port-Au-Prince Hospitals struggle to keep pace CAPTION: With so many quake victims needing immediate medical attention, hospitals and other medical facilities in Port-Au-Prince are overwhelmed by last week''s natural disaster. The AP''s Ted Shaffrey has the story. (Jan. 20) [Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] NB. THIS IS A VOICEOVER TRANSCRIPT, NOT A FULL SHOT LIST. (Port au Prince, Haiti) Some good news for a man and woman who lost relatives in the earthquake. New life. "natural sound of crying: wah, wah, hey pumpkin!" A baby born with the help of Army medics, and he''s doing fine. But now the parents have to take their newborn back into the refugee survivors camp and the daily struggle for food and water. NATS: a couple of seconds of french language, then the voice of translator: (James Silvera, New Father) "He has no place to live. His house is broke down as well. For a lot of days they''ve been living down there." In addition to these medic tents at refugee camps, the army is delivering aid to more remote locations. Like this mountain side hospital, the Mission Baptise hospital. NATURAL SOUND: "she had a house crashed on her." The hospital is over run with earthquake victims. The army regularly delivers supplies and volunteer doctors here. (John Angus, Hopital Fermathe) "We do need really, is supply, supply for the OR, supply casting, metal plates to help put the bones together, so we are trying to run it the best we can." (Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press) "This hospital is operating efficiently, meaning patients are getting treated aggressively here, that''s why the army is funneling resources here." The US army colonel in charge of this area says this is how they are directing all relief efforts. (Mike Foster, 82nd Airborne) "we''ve used the philosophy ''lets reinforce success.'' You know, places that are established, places that are up and running that we can potentially augment with capability to really get them back up to full speed instead of trying to necessarily start something up from scratch." It is an ongoing struggle here to match relief supplies and workers with those who need them. Ted Shaffrey, The Associated Press, Port au Prince, Haiti Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...