Chilaw (Sri Lanka) (AFP) – Japanese aid workers help those impacted by Sri Lanka’s worst cyclone this century, which killed at least 638 people in late November. The emergency medical camp was set up in the coastal town of Chilaw, where the main hospital was flooded and put out of action. It has only just reopened, nearly two weeks after the cyclone hit. The camp has a capacity of around 150 patients per day, but Taketo Kurozumi, head of disaster medical management at Teikyo University, says his team are seeing numbers increase, with common problems including skin and respiratory problems, as well as mosquito-borne diseases.
