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A boy crosses a puddle of water after heavy rains at a makeshift tent camp in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Feb. 26. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)The Red Cross is warning it won't have enough hurricane-proof shelters for earthquake-shattered Haiti by the time storm season commences.
So far, only about half of the 1.3 million Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 magnitude-7.0 earthquake have received emergency shelters, a Red Cross official said Tuesday.
However, Pablo Medina said those shelters — which include tents, tarpaulins and wood — won't be able to resist hurricanes.
He said aid workers plan to build storm-resistant common shelters for people to take refuge.
Hurricane season in the region usually begins in June.
On Sunday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said shelter provision was running behind schedule in Haiti, and he urged more efficient distribution of shelters.
The earthquake killed an estimated 200,000 people.
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