The death toll from Venezuela's deadly twin quakes has risen to 2954.
The total number of injured rose to 16,592 while the number of homeless stood at 16,309 according to figures released on Saturday by Jorge Rodriguez, the head of Venezuela's National Assembly legislature.
Rodriguez added that medical teams have treated 22,445 people and nearly 30,000 officials have been deployed alongside 3281 international rescue workers to help people affected by the quakes.
The search for survivors is still underway, as an unofficial but widely used tally of the missing stands at just over 41,000.
The field hospital, part of the US State Department's co-ordination with several groups providing aid in Venezuela, has treated some 400 patients so far, said its medical director Peter Holz, including surgeries that are set to number nearly 30 by Saturday evening.
"In the beginning it's all trauma from the earthquake, then we will have follow-up surgical visits," Holz said, as he stood inside the hospital's pharmacy, erected over what is normally a baseball field.
Gradually the Samaritan's Purse 100-person team will hand over operations to local doctors, either continuing to operate at the field site, or integrating all their equipment and supplies into local clinics where they will remain for good, he said.
"It will develop more into a community health centre," Holz added.
"There's a lot of sad stories but also a lot of hope in the midst of all of it."
Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez has vehemently rejected allegations that her government reacted too slowly to the quakes after days of widespread criticism of the official response.
Some of the homeless are living in official shelters and others in tent encampments.
Civilians of all stripes - including survivors, family members, volunteer paramedics and foreign rescue teams - have descended on disaster areas since the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes struck on June 24.
Many of those digging through the rubble, along with international aid organisations, say the government's response was slow and ineffectual, with aid like food and medical supplies delayed and a continuing lack of heavy machinery to move debris amid search operations.
At a devastated public housing complex in La Guaira, known colloquially as Los Cocos, a team of civilians managed by Alexander Delgado, who is usually a physical education teacher, were still trying to pull victims out on Saturday, nine days since Delgado arrived from the state of Aragua.
Miguel Poleo joined the crew to search for his stepdaughter and her family. So far he has only located their dog, dead in the rubble.
"I don't think they're alive anymore," he said, as he rested from pulling debris out of a tunnel.
"The president said that help arrived quickly but it wasn't like that," Poleo said.
"We've gotten help from regular people."
Though groups of soldiers are helping with rescue work, official presence is still lacking, he said.
"The police are walking around with their guns, their semi-automatics, as if we are in a war," Poleo said.
"What we need them to do is work."
Poleo and Delgado both said they would stay until all the victims are found.
Poleo, who worked as a mechanic before the quake, wants to give his wife the chance to bury her daughter and grandchildren.
"We need to find the bodies."
