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Aid workers struggling to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines have described the situation as bleak, one week after the storm tore into the country, the BBC reported.

A spokesman for Medecins Sans Frontieres said the logistical issues of distributing aid were enormous.

However, correspondents in the ruined city of Tacloban say US military aircraft are beginning to bring in aid.

A Philippine minister told the BBC the official death toll had reached 3,422.

Henry Gray, of Medecins Sans Frontieres, said workers who had visited Guiuan, in eastern Samar, described the situation faced by the 45,000 people there as "bleak."

"What we saw there was that a public hospital had been, basically, destroyed," he said.

Mr Gray added that local officials had asked the charity to support a local private clinic.

"We are moving this as quickly as we possibly can, but the logistical issues are enormous and they shouldn't be underestimated," he said.

The BBC's Andrew Harding, reporting from near Guiuan, says that after earlier problems with looting, some supplies are now getting in.

The Philippine's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said that there were a total of 2,360 confirmed deaths, while other reports from the ground put the figure higher.

Typhoon Haiyan was one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on land.