1. Medicines
2. Drinking Water
3. Clothes
4. Blankets
5. Tents
6. Help in Reconstruction
7. Medical Volunteers (see Mercy Malaysia below)
One Red Cross worker, Testos, told Reuters his team needed medicines, drinking water and clothes to take to those left homeless by the quake – BBC, 3 Oct 09
We need food, clothes, blankets, milk. It seems like the government has forgotten about us,” Reuters quoted one woman, Siti Armaini, as saying in Pariaman, 40km (25 miles) north of Padang – BBC, 3 Oct 09
In remoter areas outside Padang the full scale of the disaster was only starting to become clear, with villages wiped out and survivors drinking coconut water after their drinking sources were contaminated – Reuters, 3 Oct 09
survivors desperately needed tents and blankets after losing their homes – Reuters, 3 Oct 09
Testos, an Indonesian Red Cross worker at an aid station in central Padang, said,
“We also need drinking water and clothes because many peoples clothes were burnt in fires,” he said. “We also need medicines to stop infection.” – Reuters, 3 Oct 09
Asked about rescue efforts in Pariaman, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said bluntly it was now about retrieving bodies.
But he said that Indonesia most needed foreign help in the form of funds and reconstruction rather than rescuers now. – Reuters, 3 Oct 09
Vice President Jusuf Kalla estimated that the quake had damaged about 17 percent of buildings in the worst-hit areas. He said recovery operation would cost at least $400 million. – AP, 3 Oct 09
El-Mostafa Benlamlih, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator for Indonesia said aid agencies would focus on restoring public utilities, sanitation and preventing disease. Fuel was being rationed amid a power outage, water and food were in short supply – AP, 3 Oct 09
Kuala Lumpur, 3 October 2009 – MERCY Malaysia will deploy a surgical and medical team
consisting of an orthopaedic surgeon, a general surgeon, an anaesthetist, general practitioners
(GPs) and nurses to treat the earthquake victims in and around Pariaman which is located some
80 km north of Padang, Sumatra.
After initial assessments conducted by MERCY Malaysia’s team, it was found that Pariaman
(population 600,000), is the second-worst hit area and is in need of medical and relief
assistance.
The surgical team will be working in Pariaman Hospital to treat patients with severe quakerelated
injuries. The medical team, in the meantime, will perform triaging and treatment of postdisaster
injuries and ailments and identify patients in need of hospitalisation. They will also
address primary healthcare needs to the quake-affected rural population.
The team will bring along with them surgical sets and primary healthcare kits worth a total of RM
100,000.
“MERCY Malaysia will need at least RM 3 million to provide humanitarian assistance to the
earthquake victims in Indonesia. Therefore, we are appealing to the public to donate so we can
continue to provide the needed assistance,” said MERCY Malaysia President Dr. Ahmad Faizal
Perdaus
“We are also calling for specialised medical volunteers such as orthopaedic surgeons, general
surgeons, anaesthetists and OT nurses to notify us if they are available to assist us in a span of
at least two weeks,” he said.
