3-20 | For the past seven days MSF has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations.Dr Yoshitaka NAKAGAWA returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams sometimes hiking into remote communities heavily hit by the earthquake and tsunami. One patient he met was a 70 year old man who was suffering chronic renal failure and with his condition deteriorating because he was unable to reach a clinic with haemodialysis machines.
3-18 | A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis hard hit northeastern Japan. Although the death toll is high and the devastation is large-scale, as of today we see that the authorities in Japan were well-prepared for a disaster of this nature, and had well-defined emergency response plans.
3-18 | March 16The team, now 12 people, reassembled and established an operational base in Tome, in northern Miyagi prefecture and spread into three groups.One group of two people continued to work with local doctors in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, another team of two people went to Oshima Island, just off the coast where they worked in two evacuation centres. They were the first medical personnel to come to the island and saw around 40 patients most of whom had lost their medications for their chronic diseases.
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3-15 | On Tuesday, members of the 11-person MSF team in the area devastated by last week’s earthquake and tsunamis worked in evacuation centres with local medical staff in a small, isolated community in Miyagi prefecture.“There were two local doctors in Minamisanriku who have been working in around 20 evacuation centres since the earthquake and tsunami, so team members today assisted them in their consultations,” said Emmanuel GOUE, the emergency coordinator of the MSF team.