Update: Border Plan Unlikely, say Insiders

Quick Update re the reported plans for a large Haitian IDP camp near DR border.... looks unlikely, say insiders....

Santo Domingo, Sun evening:

Despite media reports quoting UN and Haitian authorities that a UN plan was being considered for the creation of a large Border Camp that might house 100,000 people evacuated from quake-damaged Port-au-Prince and other heavily-affected cities and towns, my conversations with Red Cross workers here in Santo Domingo suggest that the plan has or will been dropped. Why?

There is too much opposition and concern by Dominican officials about having such a large, dispossessed internally displaced person's IDP camp so close to the border. And there are serious challenges to moving such a large population of very seriously injured people.

I hope to get more official confirmation of where the plan - or the revision of the plan - stands tomorrow.

Meantime, Red Cross and other agency teams from around the world are quickly setting up other humanitarian 'tent city' provisional sites - like one planned at Fort de France -- and looking at other food distribution sites in the provinces.

Stay Tuned.