The Philippines will be sending a 15-man medical mission to typhoon-hit Myanmar where some 22,000 people have died and some 41,000 others have gone missing in one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Asian continent.
According to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has directed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Health (DOH) to send a medical contingent to the cyclone-ravaged old Burma.
Ermita said the DOH team has already sent an initial query with Myanmar’s government as to the type of medicines that are more needed to be brought (to Myanmar to alleviate the) catastrophe that they face.”
The Philippine medical team and medicine donation will be sent within 48 hours, said Ermita. (PIA/Bohol)