May 5th: Water purification tablets

Water supplies and rivers may be contaminated after a storm like this.

We should send them water purification tablets or even chlorine bleach with Burmese instructions on how to use them. ( 16 drops of bleach per gallon ).

As for the shelter, we should send plastic sheets. They can use it as a basic shelter or keep their belonging dry from rain. They will need medicine for diarrhea and other infectious disease. I don't know what other diseases are common this time of the year.

May we should ask a Burmese doctor with field experience for suggestion. This is just to get them through a few days. People will need to get back on their foot. Fishermen need their boats and farmers need their fields. I hope the government accept all the helps from international agencies.

KL