India has a New Nightmare : Epidemic, Starvation
NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
The fears arise with the number of casualties in Sunday's tsunami-strike reaching well above 10,000.
Despite mass burial, situation is overwhelming in Nagapattinam, Pondicherry and Andaman islands with hundreds of rotting bodies being discovered in remote villages.
The largest relief operation of human history is woefully short of medicines, food and other relief material as thousands crowd into temporary relief centres.
Situation is feared to be even worse in some Andaman islands that are yet to be reached by relief workers. In some islands, thousands are still believed to be taking shelter in forests.
"People should be buried and the animals should be destroyed and disposed off before they infect the drinking water. It's a massive operation," said UN disaster relief coordinator Jan Egeland.
more here
The fears arise with the number of casualties in Sunday's tsunami-strike reaching well above 10,000.
Despite mass burial, situation is overwhelming in Nagapattinam, Pondicherry and Andaman islands with hundreds of rotting bodies being discovered in remote villages.
The largest relief operation of human history is woefully short of medicines, food and other relief material as thousands crowd into temporary relief centres.
Situation is feared to be even worse in some Andaman islands that are yet to be reached by relief workers. In some islands, thousands are still believed to be taking shelter in forests.
"People should be buried and the animals should be destroyed and disposed off before they infect the drinking water. It's a massive operation," said UN disaster relief coordinator Jan Egeland.
more here
saltandsaffron at 10:57:00 pm |
MAKE DONATIONS TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS IN SOUTH ASIA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE VARIOUS ORGANIZATION
ACCEPTING DONATIONS CLICK HERE : http://www.boshtang.com/2004/12/tsunami-update-deathtoll-rises-to.html.
THERE IS A PLETHORA OF INFORMATION ON INTERNATIONAL, AMERICAN, CANADIAN, INDIAN AND PHILIPPINE AID AGENCIES.
Note: Some employers match your contributions to charities. So if you put 100 $ the employer would put another 100 $. This way you could double your contributions. Check with your employer and find out which charities are matched by your employer and make a donation to one of those charities.
All donations of relief materials by donors in Tamil Nadu can be given to the District Collector of their district who will ensure that the materials are transported to reach the Collectors of the affected districts and distributed to the families who have been hit by the calamity. Where donors from outside the State want to provide a general supply leaving it to the State Government to distribute, they can do so to the Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation at Chennai, who will in turn ensure that the materials are distributed under the supervision of the State Relief Commissioner. A Control Room in the office of the State Relief Commissioner with Telephone No. 044-2859 3990 has been established to handle all supplies of relief materials
http://www.tn.gov.in/pressrelease/pr281204/pr281204-1.htm
(my blog which has been linked by you and i have linked backed to u )
http://o3.indiatimes.com/PrimeMinisterReliefFund