Reuters AlertNet Full site
Homepage | Newsdesk | NGO Latest | Crisis briefings | Country profiles | MediaWatch | Jobs | Alerting | Login

FROM THE FIELD

ICDDR,B team to aid relief efforts following Cyclone Aila
03 Jun 2009 04:44:00 GMT
 Source: ICDDR,B
Sumona Liza

Website: Website: http://www.icddrb.org

406425 logo
ICDDR,B's Relief team just before departure
Previous | Next
ICDDR,B's Relief team just before departure
ICDDR,B

Background

•  Cyclone Aila

•  Hurricanes and cyclones

MORE >>
ICDDR,B has dispatched an emergency response team to assist in the management of the diarrhoea outbreak reportedly taking place in the aftermath of Cyclone Aila in southwest Bangladesh. The ICDDR,B team left Dhaka on Tuesday, 2 June for Satkhira (Koyra), making their way by car to the affected area. The team consists of senior staff physicians, experts in the management of diarrhoea. An ICDDR,B audio-visual team also accompanied the medical team to document and photograph both conditions on the ground and the work of the team. Dr Azharul Islam Khan, a senior clinician from ICDDR,B's Dhaka Hospital, will lead the group and will be in direct contact with the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to report on the situation. The team is carrying 1000 litres of IV fluid, 2000 packs of ORS and other emergency medicines including antibiotics, skin ointments, and water purification mixtures. As an organization with decades of expertise in the treatment of cholera and management of large epidemic outbreaks, ICDDR,B has always been ready to help when outbreaks strike. During the first months of 2009 ICDDR,B dispatched two teams of experts to Zimbabwe in response to a cholera epidemic that was killing thousands. ICDDR,B is always ready to answer the call to service and is pleased to be able to directly assist those affected by Cyclone Aila.


[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

Email this article       Send comments

Topics

•  Hurricanes and cyclones

MORE >>

Emergencies

•  Cyclone Aila

MORE >>

Members

•  ICDDR,B

MORE >>

NGO latest

•  ICDDR,B team to aid relief efforts following Cyclone Aila
ICCDR,B

•  ACT Alert: Cyclone AILA, Bangladesh
ACT - Switzerland

•  CWS situation report: Cyclone Aila (West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh)
CWS

•  Baptist World Aid offers assistance to Cyclone Aila victims in Bangladesh and India
BWAid

•  Extra-ordinary volunteering: young people experience life in the developing world
Christian Aid - UK

MORE >>

Latest news

•  Hungry number up 100 million in South Asia -UNICEF

•  BANGLADESH: Cyclone leaves trail of contaminated water sources

•  Dhaka, Bangkok to take up refugee issue with Yangon

•  MYANMAR: Calls to extend aid partnership

•  Cyclone strands millions in India and Bangladesh

MORE >>

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

Background information

Briefings
Cyclone Aila - [Who works where]

Topics
Hurricanes and cyclones
Facts & figures
Bangladesh

Related articles

Breaking stories
 Hungry number up 100 million in South Asia -UNICEF (1 minute ago)

BANGLADESH: Cyclone leaves trail of contaminated water sources (1 minute ago)

AlertNet insight
 Disease fears mount after cyclone Aila (1 minute ago)

Aid agency news feed
 ICDDR,B team to aid relief efforts following Cyclone Aila (1 minute ago)

Blogs
 Myanmar cyclone: WFP lifts veil on aid operation (1 minute ago)

Maps
 Bangladesh - Tropical Cyclone Aila - Satellite detected water as of May 30th, 2009 (1 minute ago)


Del.icio.us Del.icio.us  |   Digg Digg  |   NewsVine NewsVine  |   Reddit Reddit   
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T200702Z_01_DEL54_RTRIDSP_2_CYCLONE-INDIA_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/DEL54.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T200452Z_01_DEL52_RTRIDSP_2_CYCLONE-INDIA_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/DEL52.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T200313Z_01_DEL53_RTRIDSP_2_CYCLONE_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/DEL53.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T195928Z_01_DEL48_RTRIDSP_2_CYCLONE-INDIA_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/DEL48.htm
Thumb for /thefacts/imagerepository/RTRPICT/2009-06-02T195734Z_01_DEL49_RTRIDSP_2_CYCLONE-INDIA_mainimage.jpg|/thenews/pictures/DEL49.htm

Villagers queue to receive water aid from a non-governmental organisation (NGO) boat after being displaced from their homes by a tidal wave caused by cyclone Aila in Sundarbans, south-east of the ...


More pictures | Galleries
Disclaimers |  Copyright |  Privacy |  Contact Us |  Feedback |  About Us |  RSS XML

Last updated:Wed Jun 3 04:49:54 2009