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 MUNDA, Solomon Islands (AP) - Diarrhea has broken out among children huddled in camps of tsunami survivors in the Solomon Islands, a Red Cross official said Wednesday — the first worrying sign that thousands of people who lost their homes may be at risk of disease.
International aid was slow to trickle in to survivors, particularly in the hardest-hit town of Gizo in the western Solomons. At least 2,000 people spent a third unsheltered night on a hillside near Gizo after a magnitude-8.1 undersea quake sent waves up to 16 feet high smashed into the western Solomons on Monday.
Aid workers complained Thursday that relief efforts are chaotic and lack resources as the homeless in squalid camp faced growing health risks.
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