Haiti's Interim President Jocelerme Privert has declared three days of national mourning for the hundreds of people who fell victim to the raging passage of Hurricane Matthew.
Five days after the eye of the hurricane made landfall in western Haiti, there is a disparity between the figures of victims being provided by the government and local authorities.
According to the latest provisional balance sheet released by the country's civil protection agency on Saturday, Matthew killed 336 people during its passage through Haiti, left four missing, 211 injured and 61,537 people in shelters.
However, relief organisations and local authorities said on Friday that the number of victims exceeds 800.
Some 70 per cent of schools have also been damaged and the only hospital in Jeremie has been almost completely destroyed, with only the emergency department functioning with scarce resources and no power.
Access to Grand Anse has been severely affected and the area is only accessible by air.
The Haitian government has described the situation in the south as catastrophic and made an appeal for international aid.
The United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that 750,000 people are in need of emergency aid.
