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Aid Bound for Philippines to Help Typhoon Haiyan Survivors














More than 1.5 tons of emergency medicine and medical supplies – valued at $275,000 – are en route to the Philippines, with more on the way, as Direct Relief’s Emergency Team continues to monitor health-related needs following Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) – the most powerful storm to ever make landfall.
The typhoon battered the island nation early Friday morning (local time) with winds reaching nearly 200 mph – equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane. One million people are displaced and 12 million could potentially be affected, officials estimate. Electricity and communications lines have been cut off in most of the affected area – an area still reeling from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit less than one month ago.
As damage assessments begin in the Philippines, Direct Relief is monitoring its partners in the storm’s projected track using Esri mapping technology (pictured above) and is maintaining contact with its network in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, where Haiyan is predicted to make landfall once again Sunday morning local time.
Direct Relief is collaborating with its partner on the ground, Asia America Initiative (AAI), to coordinate the delivery of needed medical aid, which is expected to arrive in the Philippines capital, Manila, early next week.  The donation contains antibiotics, pain relievers, nutritional supplements, anti-fungal medications, wound dressings, and chronic disease medicines. Initially sent as part of Direct Relief’s response to the earthquake, they will be distributed where most needed.
While the storm may be over, the risks aren’t. During and after flooding, many people are at high risk of developing skin and eye infections, respiratory infections, diarrhea, malaria and cholera. That’s why Direct Relief is currently assembling an additional donation of flood relief supplies specifically requested by AAI that will ship to the Philippines next week.
Direct Relief is also working with Team Rubicon, a disaster response veterans’ service organization, to provide their search and rescue medical response team with portable kits containing products ideal for addressing the needs of displaced flood survivors. The Emergency Team will continue to communicate with other healthcare provider partners on the ground and is prepared to respond with more aid.
To support Direct Relief’s emergency efforts, please consider a donation. Follow @DirectRelief on Twitter for the latest updates on this response.

Corporate Sponsors of our Typhoon Haiyan relief effort:

Abbott and Abbott Fund
AbbVie and AbbVie Foundation
Actavis Pharma Inc.
Advanced Sterilization Products
Allergan, Inc. and the Allergan Foundation
Amgen Foundation
Baxter International Inc.
BD


Bristol-MyersSquibb
Cera Products, Inc.
Chattem Inc.
Covidien
CVS Corporation
DRIP DROP
Eli Lilly
FedEx
GSMS Incorporated
Honeywell Products


Johnson & Johnson
Merck & Co., Inc.
Microflex
Mylan Laboratories Inc.
Nephron Pharmaceuticals
Prestige Brands
Shire
Teva Pharmaceuticals
Virtus Pharmaceuticals


 
Related posts > Monitoring Partners in the Philippines as Typhoon Haiyan Nears; Responding to the 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake in the Philippines


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By Hannah Rael, Communications Associate on November 8, 2013                                        /   Emergency Response, From Headquarters, International Work   /   2 Comments
Tags: Asia America Initiative (AAI), Cambodia, Emergency Response, esri, Laos, Philippines, Team Rubicon, Typhoon Haiyan, Vietnam, Yolanda 
 


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josie enrico
3:14 am on November 13, 2013 


dear Fedex relief operation,
we philippines bangladesh community seeking for your support. we want to send clothes for affected areas in leyte philippines..
do to this we big support /help very much appreciated.
kindly please look into this if your office can offer us free box donation that we can hand over and you can send to our country.
will wait on your resposed.
best regards,
josie





 


 

Dr elbaz daniel
6:01 am on December 5, 2013 


As part of the international effort to help philipino peoples after the terrible
Haiyan typhoon , we offer for free a special version of our medication
conversion app , dedicated to convert worldwide medicines names to local name in
Philippines drugs name .
This app is comming soon
Dr Daniel elbaz
http://www.Philippines.equivamed.com
















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