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New Mission Team for Birma
25 May 2008 12:48:00 GMT
 Source: Johanniter - International Assistance
Sandra Fabig

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After the new development, Johanniter will send a 3rd mission team to Birma. They will assess and implement emergency relief activities.
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After the new development, Johanniter will send a 3rd mission team to Birma. They will assess and implement emergency relief activities.
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Berlin, 26.05.08 - Premier minister of Birma, Thein Sein, repeated on the pledging conference on Sunday, "that all foreign aid workers are allowed to join the relief operation after deadly Cyclone Nargis". Johanniter welcome this new development and extended the mission of the present assessment team until next weekend. To ensure hand over and continuation of the mission, they will also send a 3rd mission team on Tuesday for 14 days. This team will be responsible for assessing and implementing further emergency relief activities in the disaster zone as well as assessing reconstruction activities in the health sector.

The activities in Birma are still successfully going on. The present team managed to provide 380 "Cyclone Health Kits" which were handed over to ten volunteer doctors on Saturday. On Sunday, they will take the medicine to Bogale and will use them in five temporary health stations on the coast line of Birma.

Additionally, Johanniter have sent from Germany medicine against Malaria, diarrhoea and infectious diseases to care for 40.000 patients in one month. The flight was financed by the German Federal Foreign Office and arrived in Rangun on Sunday morning at 8 am local time. The health kits were handed over to the partner organisation ADRA, which will use them in the Labutta area.


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