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Water and sanitation experts join 250-strong MSF team
Date: 15/05/2008
MSF now has more than 250 staff working in the delta area. But getting material from our warehouses in Yangon to the worst affected areas is a logistics challenge. We now have ten boats for distributing aid in the delta and ten trucks are ferrying aid from Yangon to Pathein, a town in the north of the delta. So far MSF teams have managed to distribute 275 tons of aid
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Why water and sanitation is absolutely essential in the cyclone relief effort
Date: 15/05/2008
We have a pool of people who are very skilled at setting up this kind of equipment in a very short space of time, and then making sure that it runs correctly. Keeping the equipment running is actually more of a challenge than setting it up in the first place.
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PODCAST: A Complete Abyss
Date: 13/05/2008
Listen to MSF doctor Asis Min give an eyewitness account of the logistical challenge facing MSF teams in the most devastated region of the country.
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Devastation in China Mobilises MSF - Thousands Feared Dead
Date: 13/05/2008
MSF mobilises medical aid following what Chinese state media are calling the most devastating eartquake in 30 years.
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PODCAST: Frontline report - MSF's emergency response in Myanmar (Burma)
Date: 12/05/2008
Juli Niebuhr is MSF Deputy Country Manager in Myanmar. In this podcast, she describes the desperate situation MSF teams face in storm-affected areas of Myanmar (Burma).
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