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It is unclear how many families will get an opportunity to adopt orphans who remain in Pittsburgh from the BRESMA orphanage, which was nearly destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Of 54 children brought to Pittsburgh from the orphanage, 12 remained Sunday in Holy Family Institute in Emsworth. The children are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Human Services but are being cared for by local volunteers including Jamie and Ali McMutrie, the Ben Avon sisters who ran the orphanage. The other 42 were placed with adoptive families.

Officials at the federal agency did not respond to questions about who might be able to adopt the remaining children, who arrived in the United States without having started an adoption process.

Leslie Merrill McCombs, a UPMC official who helped coordinate their rescue, said it is possible the children could go to families who completed adoptions of BRESMA orphans. Seven families who adopted children expressed interest, and their requests were being evaluated, she said.

“It’s not going to be very long before these kids are in a safe, happy home,” said McCombs, a senior consultant for government relations who traveled to Haiti on a rescue flight put together by Gov. Ed Rendell, Rep. Jason Altmire, D-McCandless, and others.