MEDICAL TEAM for RELIEF WORK IN ACEH

The recent earthquake and tsunami in Aceh and Northern Sumatra has caused widespread damage and has created unprecendented turmoil and hardship for the unfortunate people there. We the Catholic Doctors Association of Malaysia and its members have decided to send a medical team to Banda Aceh and nearby Medan where there is now a refugee centre.
Our medical team headed by our president Dr Andrew Choo will be leaving for Aceh on Thursday 6th Jan 2005. We will be working with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Aceh. Rev Fr Paul Das from Church of St Francis Xavier in Petaling Jaya(PJ), Selangor, Malaysia, will be going with us. He is in charge of the Jesuit Refugee Service in PJ and Kuala Lumpur and will be coordinating our relief efforts with his counterpart in Aceh. Dr Choo will be able to give us a clearer picture in a few days time.
We plan to have a few medical teams in rotation to relieve Dr Choo who will be there for 10 days. Each team will stay for between 7 to 10 days and we need voulunteer doctors, nurses and aid in the form of antibiotics, vaccines, ORS, antidiarrhoels etc. Cash donation will be most welcomed as we may need to be there for more than a month and this will incurr a lot of expenses.
You may send your donations to "CATHOLIC DOCTORS ASSOCIATION OF MALAYSIA" together with your full name, address, email or fax number. We will issue a receipt to you.. Please contact our secretary Dr Assunta Devadass at Tel: +6012 -3070204 or Dr Anthonysamy at +603-42572875 or email us at cdamail@yahoo.com for more details or information.