Territory emergency staff to aid Typhoon effort [1]

By: Ruby Jones, 11/11/2013

A team of Northern Territory medical and emergency workers trained in disaster relief are preparing to travel to Tacloban City in the Philippines with a portable hospital and supplies following typhoon Haiyan.

 

In Tacloban 10,000 people are reported dead and thousands more are injured. The 36 workers - who are part of the Darwin-based National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre - will leave Darwin within 24 hours. The Centre's head, Dr Len Notaras, said the team will treat thousands of people injured in the typhoon, and their operation will be fully self sustained.

 

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