Partners in Health

In the first days of the worst natural disaster this hemisphere has witnessed in recent history, much attention and criticism has focused on what has been most visible: the logistical bottleneck at the Port-au-Prince airport. With one runaway and the control tower destroyed, a facility that normally handled 30 daily flights has struggled to accommodate some 200 air shipments a day. The amount of international assistance has appeared to overwhelm the Haitian capacity to receive it.