男友太凶猛1v1高h,大地资源在线资源免费观看 ,人妻少妇精品视频二区,极度sm残忍bdsm变态

  Home>News Center>China
       
 

Disease main threat as relief pours in
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-01-03 22:42

The waves have barely receded but now the danger is not from the water but from disease.

Almost immediately after the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, organizations around the world began warning of possible epidemics, saying that disease is now the most pressing danger.

UNICEF said it had reports of children dying of pneumonia in Aceh. Many in refugee camps were sick from a variety of ailments, as well as terrible wounds sustained when the tsunami hit.

In Banda Aceh and other towns, thousands of rotten corpses still lay in the streets. A Health Ministry official said he had no reports of a cholera outbreak, but the risk was very high.

Topping needs on a regional level was water and sanitation equipment to head off expected outbreaks of water-borne infections, spread through tainted community water supplies.

UN health officials say disease could kill maybe 50,000.

More than 100,000 people are living in temporary shelters and camps in Indonesia alone, many suffering from diarrhea, fever, respiratory infections, headaches and stomach problems.

However, affected nations, working with international aid agencies, private relief groups and donor governments, were easing some early bottlenecks and improving their capacity to get in goods on a daily basis to serve the estimated 5 million people requiring some form of aid.

Logistics centres were operating in Rome, Jakarta and Sumatra, the UN's Jan Egeland said, and a command-and-control centre at Thailand's U-Tapao military air base was co-ordinating all the civil and military flights involved in the relief effort.

Germany army colonel Jurgen Canders arrived in Banda Aceh on Monday with a nine-member medical unit. He said the team included tropical disease and public health specialists, and its mobile capability would allow them to conduct surgery in remote



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Relief in focus as survival hopes fade

 

   
 

Chinese death rises in quake aftermath

 

   
 

Wen visits miners, vows to curb big accidents

 

   
 

Macao doctors join team to provide aid

 

   
 

Expats worry for families, homelands

 

   
 

Ku remembered as 'great man'

 

   
  Hopes rise for Taiwan flights
   
  Ku remembered as 'great man'
   
  Experts: Psychic trauma a problem
   
  Wen visits miners, vows to curb big accidents
   
  Disease main threat as relief pours in
   
  Beijing plans charter flights across Straits
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
159 Britons feared killed in tsunami
   
Elephants help clear debris in Thailand
   
Tsunami steals a generation and the future
   
Eight days on, ailing tsunami survivors await aid
   
All missing Hongkongers confirmed safe
   
Full extent of Indonesia disaster slowly revealed
   
Death toll reaches 95,000 in Indonesia
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 奉贤区| 云梦县| 中牟县| 和林格尔县| 长丰县| 宾川县| 云梦县| 上高县| 岳阳市| 五华县| 吉木萨尔县| 伊通| 南郑县| 屏东县| 左贡县| 兖州市| 蒙阴县| 沅陵县| 宁津县| 河北省| 泸西县| 枣阳市| 福州市| 文安县| 米林县| 怀化市| 静安区| 太仆寺旗| 达日县| 涪陵区| 象山县| 峨山| 哈尔滨市| 喀喇沁旗| 巴青县| 登封市| 波密县| 安义县| 怀来县| 隆昌县| 滁州市|