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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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.























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