Our visit to the Muslim Free Hospital and Medical Relief Society was enlightening, to see the amount of renovations $55,000USD can buy in Yangon City. The city hospital was wrapping up the construction and renovation of a minor operating room, outpatient area, a maternity ward and a pharmacy. Funds are being extremely well spent. The hospital sent a team to the delta setting up three clinics to cover the Christians, the Muslims and the Karens, reducing the risks of unfair treatment, which were all too common in Thailand during the tsunami.

This week, CW Asia Fund received a very generous donation of Pharmasave Children’s chewable multi-vitamins, Gastrolyte oral rehydration salts and Nexcare first aid Steri-strip for closing small cuts. These products will be used by Dr. Frank Smithuis and staff in rural Yangon.

We are very grateful to Mr. Lap Wu for making these critical products available.

Thank you!

To date, 150 Physician Travel Packs have been delivered to partners around the world for emergency relief in 2008. Haiti and the Caribbean region have received 66 PTPS, while 34 were delivered to Myanmar, (white boxes above shipped free of charge by Air Canada to Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific to Bangkok, Thai Airlines into Yangon, Myanmar) if 28 to China and 24 to Zimbabwe thanks to the generosity of Canadian healthcare companies.

The May of Misfortune.
Cyclone Nargis hit land in Myanmar on May 2, 2008. As organizations around the world were still negotiating aid endeavours, a major earthquake struck the Sichuan area of China on May 12. HPIC responded to both of these disasters with donated Canadian medicine.

Medical aid for Myanmar was channelled through the Canadian group CW Asia Fund and used on the ground by AZG (Medecins Sans Frontieres, Holland). AZG reports working with local staff to deliver medical aid through fixed and mobile clinics in more than 300 villages. According to Nina Cassils of the CW Asia Fund, “Working directly with excellent global organizations with outposts in Myanmar allowed the donations to be used effectively for the benefit of the cyclone victims.”

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CW Asia Fund flies Canadian products into southern Myanmar

CW Asia Fund is on the leading-edge of Myanmar relief efforts with Canadian product donations delivered right into the ravaged region where help is needed most. CW Asia Fund delivered over 8,000 protein bars plus bottles of Vitamin C, donated by Jamieson Laboratories, plus other donated food products and medicines into Myanmar to provide assistance to malnourished children and adults.

When the CW Asia Fund contacted us, we agreed immediately to provide assistance, said Rob Ricci, Vice President of Marketing, Jamieson Laboratories. The CW Asia Fund is uniquely able to provide assistance directly where it is most needed right in to Myanmar’s worst hit areas. We encourage Canadian food and health companies to contact the CW Asia Fund to see how they can also provide support.

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