Updates On Relief Efforts

The Aussies donated the Prize Money from the 2nd test against Pakistan to the Tsunami relief fund. Take the cue Men in Blue.

In Chennai, there seems to be a problem for officials in co-ordinating the relief supplies. Due to lack of proper guidance individuals and NGOs ended up sending food and supplies to areas that had already received such aid. So, if you are planning to send supplies make sure that you are not duplicating effort. There are scores of remote villages in Tamilnadu that need relief.

Clean drinking water is the needed in most villages devastated by the Tsunami.

People are mass cremating the dead in Tamilnadu. This may result in families not being able to avail of the 1 lakh relief that the governemt announced.

Thieves are having a field day in Kerala, thanks to the visiting politicians. Cops were busy taking care of the VIPs, while thieves stole money and gold from victims' homes. What a shame!

Government may start a vaccination program for the victims, to arrest the onslaught of communicable diseases like Cholera and Typhoid.

Nanda, my friend, has a request to the doctors going to Chennai from Bangalore. He asked me to request the doctors to bring the following:
List of medicine
a. Doxycycline
b. ORS packets
c. Paracetamol
d. Septron
e. Gloves
f. Masks

More information on Tsunami Help India
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