'Haiti is reeling:' Earthquake survivors overwhelm hospitals in disaster-hit nation

Hospitals in Haiti are completely overwhelmed by survivors of Saturday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake and urgently need help to treat them, medical staff say.

The quake, which struck the southwest of the country, left at least 1,941 people dead and more than 9,900 injured. That toll is expected to rise, but search and rescue efforts are being hampered by a lack of resources and by heavy rains, which have caused mudslides that blocked roads in the region. The humanitarian crisis created by the quake means that an estimated 600,000 people are in need of assistance and there is an urgent need for drinking water, especially in the commune of Pestel, where almost all of the drinking water reservoirs were destroyed, Haiti's Director of Civil Protection, Dr. Claude Predtit, said at a Wednesday press conference.