Myanmar: Malteser International teams treat first cholera patients -
Two more cargos with relief supplies for the Irrawaddy Delta
16 May 2008
Labutta/Cologne. "By now, we have treated the first cholera patients," Malteser International staff members report from the hardly
(sic)* affected coastal town in the Irrawaddy Delta. Since the cyclone hit the region, the people here in Labutta could only drink water from wells that have been spoilt and heavily polluted by the flood wave."
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alertnet.org
* : mid , suspect it's meant to be badly ..........
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MSF teams delivering aid to the Delta call for immediate and unobstructed escalation of relief operations "Although MSF is able to provide a certain level of direct assistance, the overall relief effort is clearly inadequate," said Bruno Jochum Director of Operations of MSF in Geneva. "Thousands of people affected by the cyclone are in a critical state and are in urgent need of relief..."
reliefweb.int
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Myanmar's junta confines foreigners to Yangon
May 16, 12:31 PM EDT
Myanmar cyclone survivors repair their damaged house on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Friday, May 16, 2008. (AP Photo) YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions where millions need food and medicine.
New roadblocks manned by armed police have sprung up around Myanmar's largest city. Authorities at the checkpoints take down passport information and license plate numbers and sometimes interrogate drivers and their foreign passengers before ordering them to return to Yangon.
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Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 77,738
2008-05-16
YANGON, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from Cyclone Nargis has risen sharply to 77,738 in Myanmar, the state television reported in a night broadcast Friday, a fortnight after the disaster hit the country.
The dead included 159 state service personnel.
A total of 55,917 people, including 58 government employees remained missing, said the report. The number of the injured stood at 19,359.
The sharp increase of the death toll was confirmed late because the disaster-hit area was so wide and the searching operation was hard that the authorities could not obtain the figures in time, the report clarified. snip
xinhuanet.com
Mid : hang on junta , your claiming you have the situation undercontroll ......
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Junta 'hiding scale of Burma cyclone tragedy'
16/05/2008
Burma's military leaders were accused today of deliberately keeping the full plight of suffering cyclone survivors from aid agencies.
The United Nations said that severe restrictions by the junta mean they lack the most basic information, from the number of orphans to the extent of diseases and the number of refugee camps.
They also could not say whether all survivors are in camps, on the move or still living in destroyed villages in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, an area the size of Austria.
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breakingnews.ie
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