So there has been extensive flooding across South East Asia due to typhoon. 80 people have died in Cambodia. Crops and homes have been damaged, and the large amounts of residual dirty floodwater will make it easy for outbreaks of disease to spread (both from infection and mosquito's breeding).
These are some pictures from Battambang.
'Old Battambang' where I live is in the city and wasn't as badly affected.
From the top of Phnom sampeu - Usually you can see fields of rice paddies from here.
The highway close to the hospital.
Fishing on the highway.
The highway towards the hospital.
So glad the medical centre was built on high ground.
So lucky to have these pumps and an awesome team of people helping to keep the hospital functioning and open. Admin and the Dr's were out the front filling sandbags, maintenance made bridges, lifted massive amounts of equipment of the floor, sandbagged the hospital entrances and rigged up pumps, and the nurses and admin staff all came in to work despite most of their homes being flooded.
The road on my walk/wade to the hospital.
2 comments:
Thanks for the post Bear, let us know if there is anything we can do. Also you and Noni were going to send us a wish list of things for the hospital. Maybe large sponges will be on that list???
Stay safe kiddo!
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