By Xinhua,
Yangon : Myanmar has given polio vaccination to 540 cyclone-survived children under five years of age in relief camps in Laputta, one of the disaster-hard-hit townships in southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta, state media reported Monday.
Another 720 children ranging from 9 months to 10 years of age were also given measles vaccination, said the New Light of Myanmar.
A total of 770 storm victims of Kanback native village have also moved back from relief camps, the report added.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, of the 2.4 million people affected by the cyclone storm Nargis, 960,000 or 40 percent were estimated to be children.
Meanwhile, nearly a dozen foreign medics have also been rendering medical aid services in different cyclone-hit regions since mid-May.
Myanmar announced that the first phase of the country’s post-disaster restoration work — rescue and relief, has finished up to a certain extent and it has now entered into a second phase of resettlement and reconstruction.
Under the post-disaster restoration plan, 30 Myanmar private companies have been taking part in the restoration work in cyclone-hit regions with assignments by the government to take the responsibility of undertaking resettlement work in 17 affected townships.
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.
Myanmar estimated the damages and losses caused by the storm at 10.67 billion U.S. dollars with 5.5 million people affected.
The storm has killed 77,738 people and left 55,917 missing and 19,359 injured according to official-released death toll.