| Medical team returns after lending aid to Myanmar’s cyclone victims |
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| Written by Channel NewsAsia | |
| Friday, 06 June 2008 00:00 | |
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SINGAPORE: A Singapore medical team sent to Myanmar to provide aid to victims of Cyclone Nargis returned home on Thursday. The team — 13 doctors and nurses from the Ministry of Health, and ten medical volunteers from charities Mercy Relief and Red Cross — spent two weeks in Myanmar. The team attended to patients with respiratory ailments, skin infections and gastroenteritis. Initially based in a town called Twan Te, which is about an hour’s drive from Yangon, the team later extended its services to Kayin Chaung, which was previously inaccessible. Medical staff in the team said they saw 600 patients a day in the last week of May, up from the initial 200. They also attended to non—cyclone patients for injuries and chronic diseases. The team also faced some challenges including mental and physical fatigue from the heavy patient workload. |
