2009 year Press Release
Typhoon Ketsana hit the Southeast Asian country of Philippines, resulting in the most devastating floods in the past 40 years in the region. TaiwanIHA dispatched the international emergency relief medical team based on the integrated efforts of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of China. The emergency medical team constituted six fully equipped medical professionals along with the TaiwanIHA standard disaster medical kits (11 boxes, totaling 210 kilograms). The TaiwanIHA medical team arrived in Philippines on the 6th of October, and provided medical services for 10 days. The service locations include the nine shelters in the city of Sta Cruz, Laguna, where approximately 1250 patients received medical attention. Local volunteer groups and interpreters assisted the TaiwanIHA medical team in patient registration, blood pressure reading and bandaging. The mutual cooperative efforts in serving the flood victims were widely received by the locals.TaiwanIHA's medical assistance highly acclaimed by the Filipinos
Local victims suffer from diseases such as include flu, headache, infection of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, and skin diseases. Additionally, the Philippines Ministry of Health expressed concerns that the northern island, Luzon was experiencing an outbreak of leptospirosis after the floods. It caused more than one hundred deaths in the region due to the animal-to-human transmission. Medical experts also warned that the prolonged flood could also incur cholera and typhoid fever. Furthermore, the post-disaster reconstruction is the next challenge for the Filipinos.
In this mission, TaiwanIHA successfully integrated its resources with the Filipino government and local NGOs reaping synergetic results in humanitarian endeavors. In the future, TaiwanIHA will continue integrating its medical relief resources and provide timely humanitarian aid to demonstrate our passion for global health.
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