A week after super typhoon Haiyan, locally known as Yolanda, made landfall in the Philippines, masses of residents from affected areas are now getting out of ground zero.

Those who have the capacity to relocate have left the city or planned to leave. According to sources, many residents of Tacloban City either want to leave for Cebu or go to Manila, Philippine's capital. Desperate residents of Tacloban and other nearby areas have besieged what was left at the airport after Haiyan left a pile of rubble amidst flattened houses. Most who were at the airport have not eaten for days but the lucky ones who got airlifted were finally fed their first meal after days of waiting for relief goods.

State Of Hypervigilance In Storm-Battered Tacloban

Victims queue for food and water in the aftermath of super typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban city, central Philippines November 14, 2013. Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a powerful typhoon and to revive paralysed local governments. REUTERS/Erik De Castro

The Flores family, whose house is among those that are still standing in the storm-battered city of Tacloban, told TIME magazine that even if their home is still standing, they do not feel lucky. Suzy Flores, the Flores matriarch said, "We can't sleep because of all the gangs that move around at night." She added these gangs have reportedly entered homes and "steal and rape."

The Exodus Problem

The coastal city of Tacloban used to be the home of 200,000 people. But with the throngs of people leaving the city, experts said, it is possible that only very few will stay behind. Those who have already arrived in the capital have reportedly gone to the public hospitals for treatment.

Titus Tan, a Filipino activist and science research specialist at the Asian Foundation for Tropical Medicine, said: "When we fly injured people here in Manila from Visayas, we realize that our public hospitals are too few to accommodate them". He added there are a number of hospitals in the capital region that have charity policies "but not in this particular situation" referring to what happened to the Central Philippines.

A City On Its Knees

Four days after the typhoon left the affected areas in the Philippines, some bodies were reportedly left uncovered and still line what is left of Tacloban's streets.

With the Philippine Government's "slow" response to the disaster, the country's president insisting that the relief, rescue and retrieval operations are the responsibility of the municipal and provincial governments, Haiyan survivors were left to their own devices, sources said.

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