[Skinwalker]

Originally Posted by afzalaung

people- with all due respect, please forget what has been said.
I believe its just a misunderstanding.

anyway, update is...some phonelines are up..water supply in Rangoon has been restored (alhamdulillah).

but the !#@*&# govt. is playing the fool and not speeding up the entry of foreign aid workers. they are trying to take advantage of the situation.

most of us are getting really frustrated with the government (on top of the anger for not being informed effectively about the cyclone)

at this point, if France's proposal to forcibly enter BUrma for aid is approved by the UNSC, we as citizens of Burma will be more then happy.

and US have some navy on standby somewhere in the bay of bengal.they are considering to airdrop aids into burma as the harami govt. didnt allow aid from the US navy.


PLEASE MAKE SURE ANY DONATIONS YOU MAKE GOES DIRECTLY TO THE VICTIMS AND NOT THROUGH THE BURMESE GENERALS !!!!

I hope your family and friends are coping with this terrible disaster and that relief comes soon.

[afzalaung]

Salaam
thanks for the concerns.
I read in the news that a certain british tour agency has donated a cruiser ship to a charity group which was working with another charity group in Malaysia.
Now the Mercy malaysia's gonna convert that ship into a 'floating hospital' and send it to the Ayerwaddy region. they are also calling for Burmese doctors and nurses in malaysia to volunteer and go there.
this way..they dont have the issue of 'foreign aid workers' anymore. plus there are tonnes of burmese professionals living abroad.
iA..i think my dad's gonna volunteer.

on the other hand..the burmese goverment is getting more and more insane by the day. They made roadblocks at roads leading to the disaster area to prevent illegal foreign aid workers from getting there...as if they are some kinda of criminals.

[hijabihoodlum]

"The latest Burmese official figures put the number of dead at almost 38,500, with 27,838 more missing, but the Red Cross warned as many as 128,000 could be dead."

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | UN chief to send envoy to Burma

[afzalaung]

YANGON (Reuters) - The young doctors of Myanmar treating cyclone survivors may see things many doctors never see.

Hundreds of doctors barely out of Yangon medical schools are taking crash courses on how to treat people in a disaster, choosing to work independently instead of going to camps run by a military government that has shut out many foreign aid workers.

At a one-day seminar organised by a Malaysian charity, an American psychologist talked about traumatized patients and two Swedish doctors told them what they would face.

"They are young, eager and brave," said Charles Randquist, who runs a plastic surgery clinic in Sweden. "And they'll see things most doctors have never seen."

They warned of the danger of bites from vipers that follow rats to food stores, rasping skin burns from wind and waves, infections and respiratory problems from water polluted faeces, mud and fungus.

They drew up a rough plan of how to establish a medical station with toilets kept well away from water and food in an attempt to prevent cholera outbreaks in the Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated on the night of May 2 by Cyclone Nargis.

"When we found we couldn't do surgery in the delta, we tried to help train as many people as possible," said the other Swedish doctor, Stefan Amer.

The pair, who worked in Thailand in the days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, have given talks to 300 doctors in the past week as the toll of dead and missing rose to 134,000, with about 2.4 million believed to be destitute.

The World Health Organization says the health system is "highly under-resourced" in the impoverished Southeast Asian country of 53 million formerly known as Burma.

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damn...i was so close to being amongst that lot of med students!