By NNN-Prensa Latina
Pisco(Peru) : The chief of the Peruvian area affected by last week’s powerful earthquake, Gen. Otto Guibovich, has confirmed that a large number of victims have yet to receive emergency aid.
He told a local radio station that authorities have put up 15 shelters where 23,000 of the 120,000 people who lost their homes, and staying and receiving food and water there.
He said with the numbers of quake victims growing, Pisco people – one of the worst devastated areas – were demanding that aid be extended to all victims and not just to those staying in shelters.
Guibovich said due to logistical problems it was not possible to distribute aid to all, as the focus was to concentrate on victims in shelters.
He said many people remained in their destroyed houses to guard over the possessions they had managed to save.
Experts in disasters, quoted by local media, said it was more efficient to organize the population by blocks and hand over food to their representatives.
Gen. Guibovich said the situation in Pisco is stabilizing, as it is in Ica and Chincha, the other important city affected, and his concern now was to reach the mountainous areas isolated by the earthquake.