Nargis Relief Operation

Rebuilding after Nargis

Rebuilding after Nargis

Rebuilding after Nargis

Nargis Relief Operation

Our RAVEN club & BBHC Group united to send out two medical teams to East, South & North Dagon Myo Thit since 8th May till today to give free medical assistance to cyclone victims and monks. We started out with one medical team. Later on, many more doctors, medical students and youth volunteers joined us. So, we divided the medical team to two and provided basic medical needs of the public, including the medicines. We sent the people who needed to get X-rayed to clinics near the San Pya Hospital to take X-rays and also guided two patients who needed to be hospitalized to the hospital on our expense. The common health problems seen in cyclone victims were paranoia, common cold, cut wounds, and various dermatological problems like craps.

The medical team provided free medical assistance to the public from morning 10 am to 3 pm in the evening by the permission of the head monks at the monasteries in Several quarters of Dagon Myo Thit Tsp, more specifically No.(55), No.(12), No.(17) and No.(140) quarters in South Dagon Myo Thit, Ywar Thar Gyi in East Dagon Myo Thit, & Myo Oo Pagoda in North Dagon Myo Thit. We also distributed information on basic medical knowledge such as boiling water before drinking and taking good care of personal hygiene, to prevent cholera. We had already given medical assistance to nearly 3000 patients from all around Yangon as to this moment.

Nargis Relief Operation

By the sponsorship of a big company, our RAVEN club was able to distribute clean water to townships in the West District of Yangon starting from 8th May. The townships included in the distribution process were Mayangone, San Chaung, Ahlone, Bahan & Dagon. For those places that were harder to get clean water, we provided dynamo motors to pump the water out from the ground onto tanks and ponds. The public were to come to those tanks & ponds to carry the water back home. Since it was pumped out water, the need to boil it before drinking was also warned of. For the public to be provided with enough water for usage there were routine pumping-operators in each street day and night. This water-provision program is still running till now.

Quarterly-Statistics of Households Who Received Help

No.	Township	Quarter	No. of Homes	No. of Households	Population
1	Mayangone	No.(5)	407	675	15108
2		No.(2)	4328	6770	30971
3	Ahlone	Sin Minn	280	731	3601
4	Dagon	Pyi Rd. (West)	459	631	3812
5	Bahan	Five Story Rd.(South)	1050	1200	6500
6	San Chaung	Wai Lu Wun (North)	417	496	5182
7		Wai Lu Wun (South)	286	398	3547
8		Mont Lote Saung (North)	653	932	3323