permanent. dr. sanjay gupta joins us live from port-au-prince. are the patients released to the tent cities given supplies to keep the wounds clean and prevent these infections? reporter: it s a good question but the answer is pretty much no. it s interesting. you leave the hospital and people typically get a discharge sheet tells you what you re supposed to do and what supplies and medications you might need. they are given the same thing here. a discharge cheat written in english. many can t read english. telling them to get supplies. there are no place to get supplies and telling them to continue to take medications which they don t have. it s a real problem and the reason i wanted to highlight that particular situation, betty, is because certainly the immediate phase of things taking care of patients, getting them that needed care, very important. but without the longer term care which you are correctly alluding to, if you don t have that, it makes that more immediate care less