Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath, on the other hand, provide a vivid study in how poverty and insufficient government investment can turn a natural disaster into an outsize human tragedy, said Debarati Guha-Sapir, the director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Research on Disaster Epidemiology, in Brussels.
“The villages are in such levels of desperation — housing quality, nutritional status, roads, bridges, dams — that losses were more determined by their condition rather than the force of the cyclone,” she said.
The Dangers of the Deltas @ The New York Times.
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helpmyanmar // May 13, 2008 at 12:41 |
Yes, things in the Irrawaddy Delta are really quite sad. Malaria is endemic, towns are so isolated, it’s really a difficult situation.
We’ll be updating on the situation there soon as well.
zugaldia // May 13, 2008 at 16:55 |
Cheer up, and thank for dropping by.