after their town was devastated by a tsunami. people on the ground do not think that they are getting supplies quickly enough. in santiago, the capital, and concepcion, a different story but in the outer lying area, the harder hit areas, the coastal areas where most of the deaths are, aid has been very slow getting there, anderson. and, karl, in haiti we saw hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in the streets in these makeshift tent encampments. is that the same situation now in the streets of concepcion and in other towns? reporter: here in concepcion, i don t get that sense of flashback. a lot of people are sleeping outside, and they re setting up little fires outside, but you don t see them in the great quantities. there are enough structures here in the main city, concepcion still standing, that people seem to be absorbed in staying inside. but in the coastal towns where the water, not the earthquake,
in santiago, the capital and concepcion, a different story but in the outer lying area, the harder hit area, coastal areas where most of the deaths are, aid has been very slow getting there, anderson. karl, in haiti we saw hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in the streets in makeshift tent encampments. is that the same situation in the streets of concepcion and in other towns? reporter: here in concepcion, i don t get that sense of flashback. a lot of people are sleeping outside and they re setting up little fires outside but you don t see them in the great quantities. there are enough structures here in the main city concepcion still standing that people seem to be absorbed in staying inside. but in the coastal towns where the water knocked the not the earthquake but the tsunami has done the devastation there is nowhere to stay so, once again, there you do see these small tent cities not on the scale of
concepcion, a different story but in the outer lying area, the harder hit area, coastal areas where most of the deaths are, aid has been very slow getting there, anderson. karl, in haiti we saw hundreds of thousands of people sleeping in the streets in makeshift tent encampments. is that the same situation in the streets of concepcion and in other towns? reporter: here in concepcion, i don t get that sense of flashback. a lot of people are sleeping outside and they re setting up little fires outside but you don t see them in the great quantities. there are enough structures here in the main city concepcion still standing that people seem to be absorbed in staying inside. but in the coastal towns where the water knocked the not the earthquake but the tsunami has done the devastation there is nowhere to stay so, once again, there you do see these small tent cities not on the scale of haiti because these are smaller coastal communities, but
procedures they need. not perfect, but better. the real problem now, i think, is sort of what happens to these patients after they leave. an amputation patient in the states would be in the hospital and in an icu, perhaps, general care floor, getting rehabilitation afterwards, g getting prosthetics fit, and refit. most of that is not going to happen. you were here today, anderson, that s where a lot of these patients are going to end up. we re going to have a lot more with sanjay throughout the hour. sanjay went over to the hospital at the threat of tuberculosis. as i said, most of the people, 500,000 people are living in these tent cities that sprung up immediately after the earthquake. we ve been watching this one literally grow over our eyes over the last several weeks. literally all over the city of port-au-prince. and they ve become much more like permanent settlements now. we wanted to show you what it s like inside one of these tent
and they ve become much more like permanent settlements now. we wanted to show you what it s like inside one of these tent encampments. reporter: for the homeless, the hungry, tent cities offer the only refuge. it s estimated there may be more than 450,000 homeless people living in makeshift settlements all throughout the city of port-au-prince. this is one of them in a park very close to the presidential palace. right in the downtown part of the city. as you can see, it s become like a mini city within the larger city of port-au-prince. the camps are filled with kids. schools are shut and there s little for them to do. people here are constantly working, washing and cleaning whatever they have building new structures to live in. the structures in these settlements have become more permanent, initially people were using a bed sheet to block out the sun, to try to give themselves some shade. but now people started to scavenge pieces of wood like