Evacuations of critically injured Haitian children to the United States for treatment have slowed to a trickle since the arrest of 10 U.S. charity workers now charged with kidnapping, reports The New York Times.

Relief workers and government officials are concerned about taking children out of Haiti without proper paperwork, which is hard to obtain under current conditions in the country. Medishare, a Miami charity that helps run the largest pediatric temporary hospital in Haiti, was evacuating 15 children a day before the January 29 arrests but has carried only three youths out of the country since.

Ten members of an Idaho Christian charity were detained after attempting to cross into the Dominican Republic in a bus with 33 children, for whom they had no documentation. The suspects said they were taking the children to an orphanage the charity was establishing in the neighboring country.

In other news, the American Red Cross’s massive Haiti relief effort is providing the first major test for its leader, Gail McGovern, The Washington Post reports. Ms. McGovern was hired in June 2008 to lift the venerable charity out of debt and rescue its reputation, which was battered by missteps after the September 11 terror attacks and Hurricane Katrina.

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