By Xinhua,
Yangon : The United Nations has set up an emergency telecommunication center (ETC) in Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon to improve quick communication access in disaster relief and restoration works, reported the local Biweekly Eleven journal.
Some Myanamr staff have been trained by the UN Emergency Communication Group operating the center, the report said.
The UN group has been rendering assistance for some social organizations based in Bangkok to bring in their relief aid supplies to cyclone-hit areas in Myanmar’s Ayeyawaddy division and Yangon division, the report added.
Meanwhile, the World Food Program (WFP) of the U.N., in cooperation with the UN Development Program (UNDP) and some international non-governmental organizations, has been distributing ration aid supply to such storm-hit areas as Laputta ,Bogalay, Phyapon, Mawlamyinegyun and Pathein soon after the cyclone storm hit Myanmar in early last May.
According to the WFP, a total of 29,000 survived population of 9 village tracts out of 50 in Ayeyawaddy’s Laputta alone have been benefited by the UN program, earlier report said.
Laputta township suffered the biggest damage out of those in the Ayayawaddy delta, a preliminary assessment of a tripartite core group involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Myanmar and the U.N. said.
Deadly cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states — Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on last May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructure damage.
Myanmar estimated the damages and losses caused by the storm at10.67 billion U.S. dollars with 5.5 million people affected.
The storm has killed 84,537 people and left 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to the latest official death toll.