Bulgaria is to send a second team of military medics to Haiti, after a team arrived in Port-au-Prince on January 23 2010, Bulgarian daily Standart quoted Military Medical Academy head General Stoyan Tonev as saying,
 
The team of Bulgarian military surgeons and nurses that arrived in Haiti, working with French and Czech colleagues, was ordered there by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Defence Minister Nikolai Mladenov.
 
The Military Medical Academy in Sofia said that the team had extensive experience, with each having participated in missions as part of Nato contingents in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
 
Standart quoted Tonev as saying that after the January 12 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, there was an urgent need for medical professionals.
 
CNN said on January 25 that so many doctors were answering Haiti's call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince had a new problem: organising and finding good use for them all.
 
"I think there is a lot of confusion," Marivittoria Rava, a longtime volunteer with the charity Friends of the Orphans, which runs a children's hospital now caring for some post-operative patients from the general hospital, was quoted as saying.
 
Rava said that medical supplies and resources had improved, but the crush of volunteer doctors in Port-au-Prince could complicate treatment in the city while there is great need for help in other places hit by the earthquake.
 
"The general hospital has nine operating rooms, but a near platoon of volunteer surgeons, leaving many standing by for work," CNN said.
 
The Haitian government said that the confirmed death toll from the earthquake had risen to 150 000, the Voice of America said.
 
Meanwhile, a senior Italian official has strongly criticised the Haiti earthquake relief operation, saying it could have been managed much better, the BBC said on January 25.
 
Guido Bertolaso, the head of Italy's civil protection service, said there was a lack of leadership in the international aid operation, and he criticised US forces in Haiti, saying troops had no training in running a civilian relief operation.
 
International aid workers in Haiti were looking to speed up their relief efforts, after criticism that food, water and medical supplies have not yet reached survivors 12 days after a devastating earthquake, the Voice of America said on January 24.
 
Rajiv Shah, the head of the US Agency for International Development, told news agency Reuters that the disaster was "unparalleled" and his organisation is "never going to meet the need as quickly as we'd like."
 
Banks have opened in Haiti for the first time since the earthquake. Bank officials were prepared for the large crowds on hand with extra security personnel. Officials say putting money in people's pockets is a critical first step to getting the country up and running again.
 
Tempers flared as people seeking cash lined up at banks across Port-au-Prince, the Voice of America said. 
 
Money is in short supply but getting Haiti's banking system up and running is critical to stabilising the economy. 
 
Goods are available in the capital, but no one has money to buy them.