But more staff, including a psychologist, who will treat people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder after seeing lovedonesdie, and a water and sanitation health expert, will fly out over the next few days.
Anyone who has visited dying relatives hooked up to tubes and monitors in intensive care knows that the decision to let lovedonesdie in peace does not depend on who is paying the costs.
When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose lovedones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.