By Xinhua,
Yangon : Local doctors are being invited to provide long-term free medical care to victims of deadly cyclone Nargis, official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday.
Myanmar Medical Association (MMA) has invited doctors in the country to volunteer to provide free medical treatment to cyclone victims in Yangon and Ayeyawady divisions, the paper said.
MMA has carried out free health care services in storm-hit areas in the two divisions, it said, adding that over 585 doctors and specialists have provided treatment to 22,784 patients during their 38 trips to the cyclone-hit regions last month.
Specialists of Yangon, Shwebo, Mandalay, Taunggyi, Magway, Pyay, Mawlamyine, Pathein, Labutta and Bago participated in providing free medical services to the storm victims, it added.
In the post-Nargis period, dozens of foreign medics were allowed in Myanmar to render medical services to the cyclone victims. These medics include those from Thailand, India, Laos, China, Bangladesh, Singapore, the Philippines, France, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea.
These groups have respectively served in such disaster-hit townships as Laputta, Myaungmya, Bogalay, Phyapon, Kyauktan, Kungyangon and Maubin.
Meanwhile, state media reported no outbreak of other contagious and epidemic diseases in the storm-hit areas, saying that a total of 206,039 storm patients had received medical treatment during a month after the cyclone storm hit the country in early May.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states — Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage. The storm has killed 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured, according to official death toll.