Access Aid International (AAI) has deployed a Disaster Assessment and Response Team (DART) consisting of disaster managers, nurses and doctors to help provide much needed medical care to people living in the remotest and most isolated areas of typhoon-devastated Philippines.
The team will determine where healthcare is most urgently needed in liaison with local authorities.
“We know there are still some remote communities cut off from the main relief effort,” AAI Director Frank Tyler said.
“Roads have been destroyed, and some small villages are simply too remote to access by vehicle or air,” Mr Tyler said.
“These people are in similar circumstances to what we’re seeing elsewhere in the Philippines but getting help to them is a lot trickier.”
The AAI Australian personnel will join a team from the United States to bring much-needed medicine, equipment and expertise direct to the remote communities.
AAI is working in partnership with Direct Relief, which provides the emergency medical supplies, including backpacks which contain everything needed to carry out life-saving medical procedures and primary healthcare on the ground in remote communities.