UNICEF reached the struck communities in the districts of Yangon and Irrawaddy, taking them medicines and life-saving supplies, including salts for oral rehydration, antibiotics, intravenous solutions, vaccines and A vitamin, sufficient to cure 600 thousand people, and in particular, the children with acute diarrhoea, malaria and dengue. "Up to now it is written in a note -, there have been no epidemics, though some cases have been known, which are nevertheless usual in this period of the year". Moreover, UNICEF gave assistance to the Burma government for the vaccination campaigns against measles in children under fifteen years of age. "The most serious problems explained the agency concern the destruction of health centres and lack of medical staff in struck areas while the assistance demand is clearly increasing since many people died". UNICEF is tackling that problem with the national associations of medical staff, with over 130 health operators, nurses and midwives already send or going to be sent to the Laputta, Bogale and Pyapon areas.
