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A.MEN A
ONE OF THE MILLIONS
OF OPPRESSED WOMEN
-IS FIGHTING BACK
Womin con.t>o» »"d »«1-1YP» «n tM printing workshop.
Mto bind books and Iblar In Ihtir training will work tna
GONOSHASTHAYA
V ^i^iRA
Goooshisthiya -Kendra is-no: jjs:-i .project,
■ Gonoshasthnya Kendra was the only organised
■field -hospital ror Mukti’ahini ( Freedom lighter: )
and refugees on the eastern border of Bangladesh
during ‘the War of Liberation in 1971.
In I972ith*:hospital was reformed in Savar Th a. ,
it’s purpose, -to provide primary hea'th cere
the villages.
The core of the -health programme is the work of
village-based paramedics, local people themselves
(and most'of them women ), and promoting the free
health insurance scheme for the paor> subsidized
by the contributions of the batter-off*.
It is believed that a fair and equitable health sys
tem cannot grow within an oppressive socio-eco
nomic structure.
The good health ofthc people of Bangladesh requires
social change : health workers and medicines arc
r. is a par: of Use peoples' continuiug-stru^gle
against imperialist penetration of capital- •» r
struggle is against ell forms of class oppression.
no substitute for food, shelter, education and em
ployment opporunities for women and men.
The agricultural extension programme rural credit
facilities, t'u- school and the Narikendra training
centre wc.e all initiated, in G. K, to promote rural
development, in which, the poor organise and
participate.
AMENA’S STORY
UAR! KENDRA
A Project of Gonoshasthaya Kendra Trust
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Amena suffered at the hands
of her violent husband.
who abused and frequently beat i
A poor and
illiterate village woman, sne was powerless
to fight
her oppisssion.
In Narikendra she sought work; Sh; learned new
skills and to read and write and found self-confide
nce and a sense of power in 1 er experience. There
her potential was realised when she cc uld see th'
possibility for change.
In the vT.?ge she used her skill'- ' .rain women
and organise a cooperative,, vh:_: .• '
was a success,
but it was hard won, thefsve. -c were faarrassed and
slandered by those v.bo r<’-acted their independence.
Amena was insulted by a poFcenian, she so xcked
his face, and her workers made a pub'ic demonst ation and demanded an apology.
Only with such courage and Solidarity did ti e coop
erative thrive, 'it' is now ah accepted par of the
village.
Furthermore,' men can no longer ab-4s«. the e women
with impunity since they have come out of'the house
hold and organised.
it.. BIKEixDRA : CENTRE FOR
WOMEN’S VOCATIONAL TRAINING
------ --< e most oppressed class in society.
VvtUun tne nouacaoid they work long hard hourswc k that is essential ifl a subsistance economy and
yet, is unrecognised and unrewarded.
Women rarely decide their own futures and though
confined to the household, they have little power
over family resources.
Opportunities for paid work are f.‘v
arc often exploited as cheap labour.
and wooes
Narikendra opposes the ideology of women’s
"natural” inferiority and subjugation by men. It'
provides training for poor women in valuable skills
and supports women’s efforts to find employment
in- new areas.
About 30*4 of women are illiterate wh . they come
to Narikendra. So-literacy a»if numeracy classes
are provided in Gono Patshala ( the people's school )
and lessons continue up to class six.
Narikcndr? workshops offer training in sewing, jute
handicrafts, uurzxng. carpen .ry, metalwork and the
mnjt’fa ;tn - of jute plastic products.
Amena’s cooperative make woven bamboo mats,
fans, and small stools. They use home-erown ma
terials for products that village pcopic need.
Supporters of Amena’s group, abroad, buy their
jute handicrafts, wall hangings, bags and hanging
plant carriers ( shikas •).
Actanding acbooi ia a part of tha daily routina.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dr
Ravi
:
and Dr.
Thelma Narayan
(Community Health Forum).
St.John’s Medical
College and Hospital
Members of Team
Dr .
Shirdi
Dr .
Anne-Marie Rego
Mr .
Chander
Mr.
Anand
:
Prasad Tekur
Nurse Mohini
Nurse Beatr i x
Service Civil
Rev.
International
Sc.
Mary Clare
and al 1
our parents.
(Holy cross Convent)
Save the Children Fund (UK)
• Hovm $4. Ro»d 16 (Nr»)
DhanmonOi A.A.
O.P.O. Bom 5$
Onaka, Bangladesh
Tai . 314*65'311307/317395
Taltx : 642920 CERN BJ
PRESS RELEASE
CYCLONE R.E'LTEF OPERATION
Oat.R :
fi
May
1 HR 1
severe
eye. lone
which
hi
Rang I ad e ah
Tn
r e upon se
to
t he
ApriI, Save ThR Chi I <ir»ni Fund ( t)K ) has commenced a ma ,i o r fr lief
tion in the Upaz.iI la. of Rd ah kha I i , C.h.i tta gong ,
on
29
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One hour after thR wind struck at 10.30 pm t a tidal bore of over twentv
font h i g.h swept'. over the r.oa a t , I ea v i nfl a tidemark of 1 hatch and
other
flotsam on Ahalternd iron trunks when il. rereednd seven hours later.To
about three mi les (inland.!.here was little protection to help break the
force of the wave.For anyone to have survived that sudden and terrible
force,they
would , have hAd to have found the strength to cling
to
a
standing
tree
top in the noise and dark of the
eye. I one , battered
bv
waves and debris,
Rashkhali has been very load I y efFeeted.Many people died.The impact
of
the
cyclone decreased inland .from total' devastation on the coast
to
spvere damage about t.wo miles inland and then reduced effect along the
line of the road which laterally splits the Upa z i I I a about four
miles
i nI and .
Ry
the coast,the land In covered in mud and pools
of
bI ack,brackish
water; trees
which s t i, I I stand are splintered and
leafless;the
whole
p 1 ace is covered in a layer of filthy ama shed household e f f act s , t ha tc. h
and bamboo -al I that, remains of the houses and rags that were
once
clothing.
1
Many
of the dead have not yet been bur Ied.These number in
the
thou
sands.The coastal half rif Rashkhali used to have a population of about
150 .000 to 1 7,5 000,append between seven unions which paral lei about 25
miles
of
the coast.Local people sav that. at. least forty
percent
of
these
people
are
dead
or m i s s i n a . O ve r
ten
thousand
sti I I
await
s i mp I e , enshrouded ' internment in a cnnvnni ant . nnnrhv
ditc.h’.This
sug
gests
an overall death toll of over three lac people for all of
Rangladesh.Tn the worse proas of Reshkha I i .a I I people questioned had Inst
over
half
of their Cam I I i ns.MnsI of I l|osc killed were
children
anri
babies,up to eighty unrcnril. of the I.ol.nl .
Livestock 'and
poultry
of the seven seaside Unions
has
been
wiped
out;most .is still decomposing in the open.The arnelL is
terrible.Onlv
very
few
household
find productive assets
including
fishing
boats
surv.i ve . Most tuhewells were snapped nr rendered useless by the
infes
tation of salt wa te r , a'l though miraculously about twenty five are
sa i r
to
be yielding Bond water s.t i I I .Stagnant water is corrupted
and
sa
line, making water purif.vinB tablets and a I urn potash useless.The
fort.'.
thousand
people who sTny on their family land are walking over
three
miles to collect drinkable water in' any container they have , to
return
■'
whs re
they are living under the open r k y or in n
shelter
rigged
from
whatever
they could rr, I vage . Wa sh i ng i s i n the n ear e s t
pond
or
pudd I e. i however corlrup ted . Ot.her people hnvn mover! inland to find
nheler
l.
or in i g rn bed in Hon roll.of work In nearby I.owns and Chittagong.
I
The salt water has total ly destroyed the homo rice harvent,which
had
Just
begun,and
all the rice seed beds have been
destroved.The
area
needs
much
heavy rain ho become produntive again.The
embankment
is
badly damaged; i f the .monsoon comes 'bo fo re repairs can he mad e,t h e land
will
be
flooded
and unusable for a long time.
,
Tn .response
to this terrible disaster,the Bangladesh Army
with
the
llpaz.illa. administration is distributing rice to the destitute.A
Joint
medical
'team is also nperating,but there is a great need for
medical
suppl i es . RR.AC is working in three unions of the upazilla
distributing
rice and dal and running three medical teams.
The
other priority is |.o I mmed i a ted v protect and prepare against
the
outbreak
and
rapid
I'lpread of water borne diseases,
and
provide
a
modicum of shelter and more f pod , pa r t i c.u I a r I v for the women and
chi Idren.SCF 'has already (Mint enough water purifying tablets
to
provide
over
fifteen
thou san 1|
displaced families with
one
week’s
sterile
water.An
emergency
reaction
team
will
arrive
in
the
Upazilla
tonight,to be Joined by five medical teams tomo r row , a nd the start, of a
substantial flow of emergency supplies.
SCF will
be helping wi|.h th'e following measures:
1.Helping the 'local authorities quickly bury all remaining bodies
and
animal carcasses;issuing Jerryr.ans to enable people collect much
more
clean water'at a time;Insuing soap and bleaching powder,if available.
2 . Meant, i me , commence thli installation in the coastal area of fifty deep
tuhewells
to
more permanently increase the clean
water
supply
and
reduce the time and effort, taken for its collection.
.3.Provide basic minimuni shelter for homeless families and those
whose
homes are very badly damaged with the issue of plastic s h ee t. i n g , ba m boo
poles and rope.'
4.(live
families from I |ie bad 1 y.effected areas enough dry
rations
last the family one month,and something to cook and eat with.
to
5.Provide
mobiIe•medioa1 teams in five badly-hit unione,primariIy
tn
control
and treat any outbreaks of water-borne anrl
other
infectious
diseases.Providing much needed medical supplies.
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Report # 4
Three relief teams from VHSS have visited cyclone affected areas and
returned to Dhaka after distribution relief materials (on May 5 and 6). The
areas of operation of ||ie three teams were:
Team 1 : Greater Bajjsal District: Barisal, Jhalakathl and Patuakhali
Team 2 : Greater Chittagong District : Metropolitan Chittagong and Bashkhali
Upazila.
Team 3 : Greater Noakhali District : Noakhali Sadar, Companygonj, Hatiya,
Laxmipur Sadar and Ramgati Upazilas.
Each team carried with It emergency medicine, clothes and dry food for the
distressed people of the cyclone aaffected area. A foruth relief team from
VHSS will leave for Chittagong and Noakhali on the morning of April 9,
Team Programme atld Recommendations:
1. The most urgent need of the people where the cyclone devastation was
specially severe is cooked food. The spread of diarrhoea is assuming epidemic
proportion owing piincipally to the lack of safe drinking water. Most of the
areas were inundated by sea waters which has made all available surface
water saline. Even this saline water is now highly polluted.
2. The condition uf mothers and children defies description. Almost
everybody are in rags torn in a hundred places and the children have no
clothing. The children are being attacked by pneumonia and other diseases
due to exposure to sea wind, rain etc. Distribution of high protein biscuits and
milk for the children need to be started urgently.
3. VHSS relief team which visited Chittagong has reported an extremely
dismal picture of the situation in Bashkhali. Here the tidal bore swept into
habitations 5 to 10 miles inland which killed a large number of people mostly
women and children and laterally, washed away cattle, houses, schools and
madrasahs, crops etc. The few who have surviced are hungry and very ill.
They need immediate supply of food and medical attention.
4. Before thinking of long term rehabilitation - the most urgent need of
primary rehabilitation must be attended to. Most of the people survived have
no shelter. 80 percent houses in the shar area of Noakhali now ceases to exist.
The cluster village in Char Langta has been completely destructed.
5.There is no coordination of relief distribution efforts. District
Administration in affected areas does have full appreciation of urgency, but
the depth of the problem is too much. There are very little transportation
means to communicate with the affected areas. Relief is yet to reach some
affected areas while there is unnecessary duplications of efforts in others
areas. Relief reached char Baisakhi, Dhaner Sish, Char Gangchil and
Thanarhat areas of Noakhali for the first time on May 6 through the joint
efforts of the District Administration and VHSS.
6. In cooperation with District Administration of concerned area VHSS has
undertaken an extensive programme for distribution of life saving
medicines, saline, waler purifying tablets and required clothing and ready to
eat food through its members working in the affected areas. The three VHSSS
relief teams mentioned above have so far distributed the following quantities
of relief materials.
7. VHSS is trying to collect detailed description of damages suffered in the
affected Districts. Furthermore, VHSS is collecting informations to prepare a
field-study based report on outbreak of diseases and their prevention in the
affected areas.
8. Red Crescent, CARE, MCC, Prosikha, CCDB, CARITAS, OXFAM, local
NGOs, clubs, association, humanitarian agencies are supplying essential relief
materials, but, their distribution is being hampared by transportation
bottlenecks.Arranging accommodation for NGO representatives and relief
workers is turning out Io be a difficult problem.
9. Given the painful predictability of recurrent natural disasters, the need to
build an increased number of shelters and strategic forward storage points for
emergency relief materials should be given serious attention.
10. It is now a proven fact that each natural disaster is followed by lack of
availability of safe clrinking water which causes epidemic outbreak of
diarrhoea. Mechanisms whereby rain water can be stored and preserved for
use after purification In post-calamity periods need to be developed.
11. The cyclone has eroded carge segments of protective embankment in the
affected areas. These need to be repaired and /or reconstructed before the next
monsoon.
12. A motivation and awareness programme aimed at helping the people to
withdraw into shelters in an orderly fashion soon after disaster forecast need
to be undertaken.
13. A programme to increase the people's awareness about emergency health
care in post-disaster period need to be launched.
4 ' < %
Relief materials distributed by VHSS from 30th April to 6th May
SL/No.
Relief Materials
Quantity
Area
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2.
03.
04.
05.
06.
07.
08.
09.
10.
11.
12
13.
Chira
Molasses
Biscuit
Candles(Dlg)
Matchsticks(Big)
Water Carrying Cans
Chirar Moa (sweets)
Quilts
Readymade Cloths
Oral Saline
Water Pqrifyjng Tablets
Cholera 6nlliie(100 ml)
Diarrhoeal medicines
(Tablets)
Diarrhoeal Medicine
(Syrup)
Joruri Shastha Bartha
(Emergency Health Msg)
Diarrhoeal Chart
990 Kg
236 Kg
204 Packets
900
3600 Pakcets
25
300 kg
100
200
75,000 Pkts
6,05,500
950
5000
Chittagong
Barisal
Jhalakathi
Noakhali
Laksmipur
Cox’s Bazar
Bashkhali
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15.
16.
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2000 sets.
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June 7, 1991
Dr. Sanjiv Lewin
Medical Officer
SCI Emergency Relief Operation
Char Fession
Bhola
Dear Dr. Sanjiv,
Many thanks indeed for your radio message received on 7.6.91 at
17:45 hours through Red Cresecent CPF.
The Indian Medical Teams are working in Cox’s Bazar area. Dr. Anne
Marie Rego in Banskhali, Chittagong with Gono Unnayan Prochesii.
We haven’t heard from Dr. Prasad and Mohini as yet but assuming
that they are too in Cox's Bazar area with Gonoshasthaya Kendra.
Will let you know more details as soon as we hear from them.
Mr Jashimuddin, Clinic In-charge of Our Moudubi Health & Agriculture
Development Project is arriving Char Passion with more medicaments
and he will assist you in your work.
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Emergency Relief Operations
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NO.208/ER0/91
Md. Mahbubul Alam Liton
Team Leader Incharge
SCI-Emergency Relief Operation
Char Fession
Bhola.
Dear Liton,
Mr. Christian Gruner from SCI-Germany will be visiting the
char Kukri Mukri, Char Motahar, Char Monohar, Char Stiphen
and Char Newlyn of Char Fession Upazila (Bhola district) to
review the ongoing relief operation and he will assess the
need and feasibility to undertake future reconstruction/
rehabilitation works in the above areas.
Mukhlesur Rahman Mallik of SCI-Mymensingh Unit will stay on
and render voluntary services for one month. Jashimuddin
(Clinic Incharge) of our Moudubi Project will be bringing
medicine to Char Fession soon.
^hanking you,
Sd/Mian Akb&r Hussein
Coordinator
Emergency Relief Operation.
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Deputy Commissioner, Bhola
jT Relief Coordinator, Charfession, Bhola.
4) Upazila Chairman, Charfession, Bhola.
5) Upazila Nirbahi Officer, Charfession, Bhola
Mian Akbar Hussein
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feelief operations of Abated
Forces, BDR continue Ml
Armed Forces relief activilics at the cyclone and tidal
bore affected areas arc going
on. anJSPR release said, re
ports BSS.
Army personnel are carrying
on relief operations at the
coastal areas and off- shore is
lands in cooperation with the
local administration. NGOs
and other concerned organisa
tions.
Comilla area troops today
distributed more than 15
tonnes of rice, wheat, atta.
potatoes and paddy seeds at
Sandwip.
Hatia, Rangati and Chatkhil.
They also distributed other re
lief materials including bis
cuits. chira, tinned food, other
food grains, blankets, cloth
ings old clothes, bady suits, sarecs. soaps, candles, plastic
containers, utensils, bleach
ing-'.power and relief boxes
among the cyclone victims.
Mcatiwhlle, Army medical
teams have treated 865 more
patients'at places,
Bangladesh Navy ships con
tinued their relief operation X
the coastal areas and off-\
islands from C hi Hagen,
Khulna and Barisal in coordt
nation with. the concerned au
thorities.
Page ftve-
nf-IAKA SUNDAY 2 JUNE 1991
The New Nation
Aid consortium
pledge
THE Aid to Bangladesh Consortium
has pledged 2.3 billion dollars during
1991-92 fiscal year—500 million dol
lars more than that of last year— for
meeting the country's development
needs. The donor countries and finan
cial agencies during their just concluded
Paris meet were appreciative of the pos
itive developments that have taken
place in Bangladesh in the meantime.
The chairman of the meeting pin
pointed the establishment of a demo
cratic government, comfortable foreign
exchange position and macro-economic
stability despite extreme strains caused
by the Gulf crisis and the devastating
cyclone. Inter alia, the government pol
icy of eliminating waste, Inefficiency
and corruption together with commit
ment to generate more domestic re
sources created confidence among the
international community so that the
highest ever pledge of assistance was
made this time.
It is heartening that restoration of
democracy through a long and arduous
struggle by people of this country drew
wide appreciation from the Aid
Consortium and at the same tine its
concern at the devastation caused ly the
recent cyclone and tidal surge. Tie in
ternational community represented at
the Paris meet expressed its readiress to
assist Bangladesh in reconstruclon of
the cyclone-ravaged country. Aid, to
that end, a task force comprising repre
sentatives of our government aid vari
ous donor countries is already cmduct-'
ing a survey so as to assess shcrt-term
and long-term financial assistance for
reconstruction of the cyclone-battered
coastal areas and offshore ishnds. It
was. however, made plain that more
funds would be provided by the interna
tional community separately for im
mediate reconstruction and rehabilita
tion of the cyclone ravaged economy.
Addressing the World Bank-spon
sored Aid Club meeting, Finance
Minister Salfur Rahman outlined the
goals of his government as establish
ment of democracy, meaningful devel
opment and poverty alleviation in an
endeavour to achieve a self-reliant
economy. The government was firmly
committed to privatisation, marketoriented economic environment and
reduction of burden of subsidy: All it
boils down to is fiscal and monetary
discipline in the macro-economic man
eminent. Unless the wishes of the peo
agement so that short-term economic
ple are shown due respect, no amount of
stability gains momentum. Absence of
assistance can bring about qualitative
accountability and wave of corruption
change in the way of life and the efforts
particularly in the financial sector cid
of poverty alleviation through devel
enough of damage to the country's eccnopment may prove a futile exercise.
. omy and as against that the present gvemment's assurance to the donor comtries of stricter application of fiscal aid
INAUGURATING the "diabetic aware
monetary discipline swayed the imagi
ness day" organised by the Bangladesh
nations of the Aid Club.
Diabetic Society at Blrdem auditorium
National priorities both in respecof
on Tuesday. the Acting' President
economic development as well as reonistressed the need of proper awareness
struction of cyclone-battered infras
about diabetes. He lauded the role of the
tructures must be adhered to in ordeto
diabetic hospital in rendering service to
ensure unobstructed flow of aid andasthe suffering humanity.
sistance fn>m the affluent nations. The
Diabetes is a disabling disease the in
pre-budget aid pledge, most of which
cidence of which is increasing rapidly.
would be in the form of project aid, is of
There are about ten lakh people in the
utmost importance. Measures such as
country who are suffering from this dis
generation of more internal resources
ease. Diabetes is the mother of many
and slicing down current expenditure,
diseases affecting the kidney, the heart
restructuring the direct tax format, ra- ' and eyesight. Although painless, it
tionalisation of tariff system, etc. are
leads one slowly to death unless de
vital, to higher proportion of develop
tected at the incipient stage and kept
ment outlay which ultimately leads to
under control. It gradually reduces a
the path of economic self-reliance. The
man
’s physical and mental capacities
success of the endeavour, however, de
taking
away his usefulness as a citizen
pends on the cooperation of the traders ,
of
the
country.
Industrialists and income tax paytrsDiabetes has to be preventive. But if
Only govemmeiital efforts may not be
detected at the early stage it can be kept .
enough. The follies of the past regime
under control through discipline and
should not be allowed to be repeated md
medicine.
the present government must resi°re
Scrupulous adherence to the dieti
accountability i> the system of gov-
Diabetic awareness
tian's recipe and regular taking of
medicine. Although the exact cause of
the disease is yet to be known it is syn
onymous with reduction of insulin pro
duction in the pancreas, which can be
improved by stimulation of the beta
cells, regular physical exercise and
lower intake of calorie.
Since there is no prophylaxis of dia
betes. mass awareness of the symptons
is to be Increased. Excessive hunger and
thirst, frequent urination, blurring of
the vision and gradual loss of weight
without any cognisable disease are
some of the symptoms of this disease.
People are to be made aware of such
symptoms through the publicity media
like radio and television. They are also
to be taught what to do in cases of hypo
glycemia and diabetic coma. The elec
tronic media has a role to play in this
respect also.
The Bangladesh Diabetic Association
has grown into a vast complex almost
from scratch through the untiring ef
forts of late Prof Ibrahim, the founding
father of this association. The BIRD EM
is at present extending treatment and
advice to one lakh 25 thousand diabet
ics in the country. It deserves maximum
patronisatlon by the government and
international philanthropic organisa
tions.
Cyclone •}
Contd from page I
and unloading of cargo in the •
port from yesterday evening. A
total of 15 ships are now an
chored at the port. The Mongla
upazila administration had
made arrangement for the
shelter of the people in the ad
joining low-lying belt in the
event of severity of cyclonic
storm and tidal surge.
our Chittagong Bureau adds:
The US Task Force ships arid
helicopters have been moved to
safer places following the an
nouncement of the storm
warning. The five US black
Hawk helicopters which were
engaged in relief work were
flown to Dhaka while the US
Task Force ship St. Louis was
moved eastward from the outer
anchorage yesterday after
noon.
The Chittagong port author
ities have taken adequate mea
sures in the port area
Additional Menpower has been
deployed to face any emergency
situation.
The St. Louis which joined
the second phase of "Operation
Sea Angel", will now operate
from Chittagong instead of
Cox’s Bazar it was learnt yes
terday.
The commander of US Task
Force Major General Stackpole
visited the ship yesterday and
addressed the officers and
sailors.
He told the officers and
sailors. " We feel proud of help
ing the distressed people of
Bangladesh at the time of their
dire need". He said accelerated
relief operation conducted by
the Task Force averted the pos
sible loss of lives after the dis
aster.
He furt her said, "by render
ing such a noble job we want to
set a unique example of hu
manitarian service in the
world"," We rushed to assist the
distressed on humanitarian
ground." he said, adding that
the relief operation in
Bangladesh has been recog
nised globally as many other
countries had joined it.
The district administration
pressed into serivcc all means
to evacuate people from the
coastal areas. In the meantime.
people have started moving Io
safer zones. The district ad
ministration and the local Red
Crescent Society have em
barked upon massive publicity
campaign in all the 24 coastal
and
off-shore
upazilas
Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar
districts asking people to move
to safe shelters.
Chittagong City Corpora
tion and the distnet adminis
/ N
tration arc keeping constant
watch on the situation.
People of coastal areas fo
Patcnga. Anwara. Banskhali in
Chittagong and Chakoria.
Mohcshkhali. Kutubdia and
Cox’s Bazar were moving to
safely from the temporary
shelters created for them dur
ing the past one month. A resi
dent of Patcnga said that people
were leaving .their tents for
safety when they heard the
news of hoisting of warning
signal No 6.
The Zonal Relief Coordi
nation (ZRC) office has alerted
the people of the coastal areas
of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar
against the impending danger
and messages have been sent to
the people in the remote coastal
areas asking them to move to
safety.
Our Barisal Correspondent
adds: District administrations
of Patuakhali and Barguna
have urged the people living in
the inaccessible areas and out
side the cross dam to move to
safety. These districts also ex
perienced drizzles throughout
Saturday.
Bhola District administra
tion sources said the wind
speed began increasing yester
day evening. Upazila Nirbahi
Officers of Manpura. Cherfashlon, Borhanudddin and
Daulatkhan have kept on full
alert in the face fo any
eventuality. The entire district
experienced light to heavy
rainfall.
The district of Barisal expe
rienced incessant rainfall from
midnight of Friday. The wind
speed is gradually increasing.
According to Barisal control
room sources, upazila admin
istrations of Hizla, Muladi and
Mehcdiganj have also been
alerted about gravity of the sit
uation.
Meanwhile. 22 thousand Red
Crescent workers under cy
clone preparedness programme
of Barisal region are ready to
face any situation. People from
the far-flung areas were moved
to safe shelters, according to
the control room.
eomfctaaes
CHITTAGONG. June 1 (BSS):
The relief and rehabilitation
programme, conducted by tch
Zonal
Coordination
Committee here, continues in
full-swing in order to alleviate
the sufferings of the cyclone
and tidal surge-a fleeted people
of Chittagong. Cox's Bazar and
Noakhali districts.
According to official sources.
17.630 metric tons of rice,
30,300 metric tons of wheat,
21.157 pieces of sarees and
31,145 pieces of lungis were
distributed among the affected
people till May 28. Huge quan
tities of dry food including bis
cuits, chira and other items
were also distributed.
The bulk of the relief mate
rials was despatched by truck
and launch. US Task Force for-’
ried 3329 metric tons of relief
goods including medicines,
tubewells. Cl sheets to the re
mote affected areas by heli
copter. amphibian and planestill Wednesday. Task Force he
licopters continue carrying re
lief goods for NGOs as well
Government stores in Sandwip.
Kutubdia. Haliya and Mohcskhali.
Zonal Coordinator Mr
Mokammel Huq said that 537
medical teams were rendering
medicare services in the af
fected areas and that the num
ber of diarrhoea patients was
reducing daily. About 18 lakh
orsaline, 61155 intravenus
salines (IVS). 16,50,700 water
purifying tablets were dis
tributed till May 29, he said.
Mr Huq said that 6723 tube
wells were repaired while 1406
new ones were sunk in the af
fected areas to ensure pure
drinking water. BADC ana pri
vate parties have installed 369
and 87 power pumps respec
tively for dewatering ponds and
dighis. 1176 ponds were dewa
tered till todatc.
The Zonal Relief and
Rehabilitation Coordination
office distributed 6,563 tents.
more than 50 metric tons CI
Sheets in Chittagong and Cox's
Bazar for building temporary
shelters.
The Zonal Relief Coordi
nation office has directed
reconstruction
of
em
bankments on emergency basis
at Patenga and Sandwip and
Moheskhali, Kutubdia.
The survival relief operation1
was now over the rehabilita
tion programme—mostly house
-building and embankment
reconstruction works arc going
on in all the affected areas.
wr
807 ponds, di
dewatered
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CHITTAGONG. Jur
A total of 807 ponds have so far been dev
the tidal surge affect^
Chittagong district
BADC and other r
gaged 258 and 78 pc
respectively in cr sal
ponds and dighis iO gov
Banshkhali. ande
woi
BADC did not charr act
for dewatering. S&
fulland mud entered s
dighis in tidal sur.
areas polluting thcC ..ater.
Survivors return to normal He
with boundless resiffleiace
COX’S BAZAR. June 1: With
astonishing resilience, the sur
vivors of last month's deadly
cyclone and tidal surge ap
peared to be slowly recovering
from the shock and reverting to
normal life as the first phase of
emergency relief operations
comes to an end.
A ride on a British Sea king
copter from the port city of
Chittagong along the coastal
belt down to Cox's Bazar
Wednesday gave a cursory im
pression of the new phase of
renewal the cyclone survivors
were about to embark on.
People were seen working on
their land again; but there was
still water on some land. It
would take weeks before the
saline water is washed by mon
soon showers to make the land
arable, officials and NGO
workers said.
As the choppers hovered low
over Maheshkhali—one of the
islands that took most of the
brunt of lai t month's cyclone
people still looked up and
waved red flags with expecta
tion that new supplies of relief
would be delivered to them.
There were also signs of the
villagers having started re
building their homes blown or
washed away by Lhc deluge.
Some homes already have new
shining roofs of corrugated tin
while others the cover of yellow
or blue polythene sheets.
In some places, thin herds of
cattle could be seen grazing on
pastures which were no more
green but gave a yellowish look.
"The scars of devastation
will be there for .months or
even years...But ofic redeeming
feature about the people is their
boundless resilience. They ap
pear to have overcome the
shock and have been on their
feet again", said Omar Faruquc,
the
Sub-Sonal
Relief
Coordinator for the Cox's Bazar
area.
Giving a quick run-down on
the relief efforts in the region,
Faruque, who was Director
General of Social Welfare, said
now that the emergency relief
is coming to an-end, they are
going to embark on the new and
the most crucial phase—long
term rehabilitation.
He identified house-building
and repair of roads and em
bankments which should now
get the top-most priority during
the new phase of rehabilita
tion.
Reconstruction of the 49
kilometer
embankment
around the island of Kutubdia
should be taken up on an urgent
basis. At least 277 kilometers
of embankment in the district
had been badly damaged by the
cyclone and tidal surge.
The district administration
estimated that they would need
13,500 metric tons of wheat to
repair the embankments under
Food-for Work programmes.
Faruquc said the damages
wrought by the cyclone on the
property and infrastructures jn
the district had been estimated
to be more than 600 million Us
dollars.
He parliculdy mentioned
the largcscale amage of salt
and shrimp irustries in the
district which uuld together
require about 2 million US
dollars for theiimmcdialc re
habilitation.
A total of 16,72 diarrhoeal
cases had becniportcd in the
Our correspondent
distiCt since the/clone struck
last month. Buofficials said
MADARIPUR. June 1: The
only 25 deaths vre so far re outdoor of the Madaripur.
ported.
Hajcra Howlader Diabetic
"We have beeiable to con Hospital built at a cost of Tk 5lakh was inaugurated by Mr
tain the situatiorin the area.
thanks to the .tick moves Ashiqul Huq Chowdhury. DC.
taken by the NOs and gov Madaripur. recently.
It may be mentioned in this..
ernment medics workers".
Faruque said. A>tal of, 125 connection that Mr Shajjad
medical teams \iad been Hossain Howlader. a busi
nessman of the locality do-.
operating in the art.
Faruquc also inmned that nated Tk 3 lakh for construe-of the 1.4 million pbulation in lion of the hospital while Lions,
the Cox's Bazar arji, officii Club. Madaripur donated Taka.
death toll was e^mated at 80 thousand.
Apart this Mr Towhidur
50,981, Besides, tt district
administration hath list of Rahman, Governor, Lions
District-315
contributed a
another 10,000 piple
modern machine.
were still reported rising-
Diabetic hospital
starts functioning
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D ISASTER INFORMATION SYSTEM —
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Report Dates
I.
May 9,
1991
Report No.:
1
Backqround;
At this early stage, the information on both supply and demand is
limited, and often conflictory, with donors
unable to
report on
the
contents
of
airlifts, major agencies issuing diametrical 1/
opposed reports on
the
need
for
ORS,
WF'T
etc.
The DisasterInformation System
Office (DISC)
is trying
to assemble a clear
picture of the situation ... your
assistance is
invaluable. The
better information
we have, the better we will be able to assess
the need for and to coordinate the provision of relief
goods. So
if
there
are
errors
or
omissions
in this DISC report please
contact us so that w# can correct them !!
ORS
II.
A.
Production Capacity and Level:
Bangladesh's capacity to produce
ORS is
estimated by
UNICEF at
1,942,000 packets
per week.
DISO estimates that the maximum "in
country" production level is 2,948,000 packets per week, and tnat
currently 2,226,000 packets are being produced per week.
B.
Constraints!
Raw materials,
in particular
anhydrous glucose and packing foil
represent the two major
constraints facing
the manufacturers of
□ RS.
47.5
metric
tons
(equivalent
of
4 7,500,000
0.5
litr-=
by UNICEF f -oit.
anhydio'ts glucose
is to
be cJ eared
packets) of
Chittagong
port
in
the
next
week.
Inis
is destined for the
National Oral Re-hy. Ira tion Programme ( NORI-',
and would allow NORF
to manufacture
ORS for
5 weeks
at its current production rate.
However, NORP does not conform to WHO standards. arid therefore is
not an acceptable s-n.irce for USAID funded re? I xef efforts.
The
Essential
DrigiB
Company
Ltd.
(EDCo j .
will
run
out
of
ar,hydrous glucose on May 16, and serious consideration
should be
given to re-direct.i'ig some of the above shipment to allow EDCo to
continue
product!, ,.
Gonoshasthaya
Keodt ■>
has
enough
r-,.
materials to manufacture ORS (for supply through SMC;, until mirJurie at the current
production rate.
Square F’harmaceu t ica 1 s a- r
continuing to
produce at
the rate of 13i>.l’00 per weer., and
no immediate raw ma t.erials
constraint. Sonear
Laboratories ha /e
run
out
of
raw
materials,
but
would
b<?
willing
to resume
production if the raw materials were available .
.1
Assuming that the 47.5
tons is
redistributed to
ensure maximum
production, at
current production rates, the manufacturers using
anhydrous glucose will
require
additional
supply
of
this raw
material in
early June.
EDCo has 30 tons awaiting shipment from
South Korea, and this
brings the
question of
Bangladesh’s port
facilities
into
question.
Chittagong
port is open for vessels
with a
maximum draft
of 23
feet, and
is unlikely
to open for
larger ships
for sometime. Mong la port near Khulna will be over—
stretched for as long as Chittaaonq remains inoperative. If major
diarrhoeal disease epidemics break out in the country, it will be
necessary to considri'r airlifting
supplies
of
anhydrous glucose
and packing
foil into the country. Both these raw materials must
be imported from South Korea.
Other producers (ICIjDFt,B BRAC
and CWFP)
manufacture sugar—based
ORS and currently do not face raw material constraints.
III.
I.V.
A.
Acetatei
Production Level and Capacity:
Bangladesh
has
the
capacity
to
produce 339,000 0.5/1.0 litre
bottles of I.V. Acetate each week, and currently, 207,500 bottles
(857. capacity) are being produced.
B.
Constraints!
Clearly,
the
demand
for
I.V.
Acetate depends on the level of
diarrhoeal disease outbreaks in the country. Demand patterns must
be
carefully
monitored
to
establish
the
adequacy
of
these
supplies.
IV,
Water Purifying Tablets:
A. Production L.evwl and Capacity:
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has
large stocks
of WPTs in
country, as
part of
its cyclone
preparedness programme, Senear
Laboratories produce
WPTs in
Bangladesh, but
are not currently
producing due
to a
lack of
raw materials.
They have stocks of
4,000,000 5 litre WPTs and have been accredited by the Government
of
Bangladesh.
However,
they
have
not
yet applied for a WHO
accredi tation.
B. Constraints:
A total of at least 16.9 million 5 litre WPTs and 1 million 20/25
litre WPTs
are, or
will be,
available for
distribution in the
cyclone affected areas. This
together with
other small
WPTs is
enough to provide only 110 million litres of potable water. There
are continuing reports of
shortages of
water containers
in the
domestic
market,
which
clearly
limits
the
use of WPTs. WPTs
represent a very short
term
stop-gap
solution,
and continuing
emphasis must be plac«»d on repairing hand-pumps.
0, Bleaching Powder:
A. Production Level and Capacity:
Bangladesh
Chemical
Industries
Co.'s
(BCIC)
plant
for the
manufacture of bleaching powder is in Chittagong and was severely
affected by
the eye: lone. The stocks were ruined and the plant is
unlikely to resume production in the near future.
B. Constraints:
Bleaching
powder
1 hi
still
widely
available
in
the domestic
market, but
this i bi
likely to change as the existing stocks are
consumed. It is possible that cross-border
informal market trade
will ensure the con I inued supply of this commodity for the period
that the BCIC plant, is out of operation.
VI, AlWf
A. Production Level and Capacity,
Alum, in un-ground
form,
is
still
available
on
the domestic
market, however it requires processing before use (see below).
B. Constraints,
The machine
used by
EDCo to
grind alum is ma 1-functioning , and
this is limiting production.
It
is
possible
that cross-border
informal market
trade will
ensure the
continued supply of this
commodity if demand remains high.
VII. Handpumps;
Both the Department, of Public Health Engineering (DPHE)
and NGCs
are working to repair and return handpumpts to a usable condition.
The DPHE is repairing at the
rate
of
circa
400
per
day, but
initial
estimates
sfnow
that
around
90,000
handpumps
were
contaminated/damageii during the cyclone.
To increase
the number
of usable
handpumps where they have not been damaged, UNICEF are
recommending that tine users pump them out for 30 minutes and then
proceed as usual. The DPHE prefers to use bleach to disinfect the
pumps prior resumption of normal use.
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Organization
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
0.5
1.0
Nate 1
Nnaa 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel, 1 2
Litre
Litre
Essential Drugs Co.
Anisul Islaa
Raflqiir Rahaan
ICCDR.B
Dr. Brad Sack
John Mlnkelaann 600171
NORP
Sadekur Rahaan
314405
Concerned Noaen for FP
Noustari Khan
401064
Gonoshashto Kendra
Dr, Naksud Ahaed
500406
CARE
Terrance Ratigan
814195
462,500
250,000 (?)
811854
811853
1,950,000
314276
500,000
500720
120,000
0
Oxfaa
Nurul Huda
316936
BRAC
Ronjon Halder
600106-7 600161-4
75,000
400188
408897
260,500
20,000
Narirullah
B'desh Red Crescent Society
Square Pharmaceuticals
S.I. Islaa
251653
237199
Sonear laboratories
Dr. Nadud Khan Dr. Aha Obaidah 243761
243762
0
600579
200,000
Swiss Developaent Corpn.S.A.Karia
605618
20,000
48,500
6ov't Pre-positionned Stocks
20,000
2,575,000
6,461,500
ORS Production:
Organization
Contact
Contact
Contact
Naae 1
Naae 2
Tel. I 1 Tel. 12
Essential Drugs Co.
Anisul Islaa
RafJqur Rahaan 811854
ICCDR.B
Dr, Brad Sack
600171
Contact
811853
40,000
Production
Capacity
Level
Projected
Capacity
.Level
0.5
0.5
Production
1.0
1.0
Litre
Litre
per week
per week
Total
Production
Litre
Litre
t0X7 IWC'*
ptr week ptr week
784,000
784,000
210,000
210,000 1,000,000
750,000 3,375,000
In Next
Month
784,000
NORP
Sadekur Rahaan
314405
314276
850,000
BRAC
Ronjon Halder
600106-7 600161-4
72,000
72,000
324,000
Concerned Noaen for FP
Houstari Khan
401064
30,000
30,000
135,000
Gonoshashto Kendra
Dr. Haksud Ahaed
500406
600,000
250,000 1,500,000
Square Pharaaceutica1s
S.I. Islaa
251653
237199
222,000
130,000
Sonear Laboratories
Dr. Nadud Khan Dr. Abu Obaidah 243761
243762
180,000
0
0
601010
881131
0
0
0
144,000
0
(
2,226,000 7,703,000
144,000
0
c
Pioneer Pharaaceuticals Aaanullah Hizan
500720
2,948,000
585,000
ORS being laported:
Organization
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
0.5
1.0
Naae 1
Naae 2
Tel. 1 1 1'el. I 2
litre
litre
......................
UNICEF
Flora Sibunda
Philip O'Brien 500181-6
NHO/NSF
Saha
Dr. Abeysundere 864653
500,000
2,500
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Organization
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Contact
Contact
Naas 1
N.iee 2
Tel. 8 1 Tel. 1 2
——————— ———————
Contact
0.5 or 1,0
litre
———————
Zakiur Rahean
402394
415549
160,000
IPH
Aeinul Isiao
600101
600102
78,000
libra
Helal
503645
Opsonin
———————
15,290
253,290
l.V. Acetate Current Stocks
Organization
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
Naee 1
Nine 2
Tel. I 1 Tel. I 2
Opsonin
Zakiur Rahean
402394
415569
IPH
Aeinul Islae
600101
600102
Libra
Helal
503645
0.5 or 1.0
Litre
50,000
37,648
6ov't Pre-positionned Stocks
40,456
128,104
Production
IV Acetate Production:
Organization
Capacity
level
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
Bottles
Bottles
Naee 1
Hue 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
per week
per ueek
Opsonin
Zakiur Rahean
402394
415569
240,000
220,000
IPH
Aeinul Islae
600101
600102
84,000
60,000
libra
Helal
503645
15,000
7,500
339,000
287,500
IV Acetate being leportedi
Organization
UNICEF
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
0.5
1.0
Naee 1
Naee 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. t 2
Litre
litre
-------
-------
-------
Flora Sibunda
Philip O'Brien 500181-6
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100,000
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Organization
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Contact
|lame 2
Rat lour Rahaan
Contact
Contact
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
Essential Drugs Co.
Anisul Islaa
811854
811853
Sonear Laboratories
Dr. Hadud khan Dr. Abu Obaidah 243761
243762
ICDDR,B
Dr. Brad Sack
600171
CARE
Terrance Ratigan
814195
Oxfam
Nurul Huda
5
20/25
Litre
Litre
Litre
1,350,000
1,500,000
907,200
427,000
316936
Narirullah
B’desh Red Crescent Society
1.5 - 3.0
2,200,000
408897
400188
2,300,000
1,552,580 (?)
8ov't Pre-positionned Stocks
7,979,580
907,200
Hater Purifying Tablets Current Stocks i
Contact
klat 2
Contact
Naee 1
Organization
Contact
Contact
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
Raflour Rahaan
1.5 - 3.0
5
20/25
Litre
Litre
Litre
0
Essential Drugs Co.
Amsul Islaa
811854
811853
Sonear Laboratories
Dr. Hadud Khan Dr. Abu Obaidah 243761
243762
4,000,000
ICDDR.B
Dr. Brad Sack
408897
6,300,000 (?)
Narirullah
B'desh Red Crescent Society
0
600171
400188
10,300,000
Production
Hater Purifying Tablets Production!
Production
Level
Capacity
Capacity
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
1.5 - 3.0
Litre
In Next
Naae 1
Name 2
I el. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
per aeek
per *eek
Month
Essential Drugs Co.
Anisul Islaa
Rafiqur Rahaan
811854
811853
1,800,000
1,200,000
800,000
Sonear Laboratories
Dr. Hadud Khan Dr, Abu Obaidah 243761
243762
Organization
Contact
Contact
Contact
Naee 1
Naee 2
Tel. I 1 Tel. 12
Contact
Philip O’Brien 500181-6
5
20/25
Litre
Litre
500,000
UNICEF
Flora Sibunda
USAID
Jose Garcon
884700-44
Japanese Embassy
Takshi Ota
608191-5
4,000,000 (?)
300,000 (?)
507743
100,000 (?)
Indian Eebassy
4,900,000
Totel HPTs available to 23 Mayi
1.5 - 3.0 Litres
2,550,000
5 Litrei
20/25 Litrer
16,879,580
907,200
Litres of Fresh Hateri
109,909,900
0
Level
In Next
Litre
per week per meek
2,400,000
Hater Purification Tablets being laportedi
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5.0
0
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Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
Nace 1
Naee 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
Deb Nath
Nujlbur Rahean
251974
257487
0
Bleaching Ponder Current Stocks i
Organization
BCIC
Contact
Cnntact
Contact
Contact
Metric
Naie 1
Nose 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. I 2
Tons
Deb Nath
Ifujibur Rahean
251974
1.5
237687
Production
Bleaching Ponder Production:
Capacity
Organization
BCIC
Contact
Contact
Naee 1
Naie 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
-------
per neek
-------
per neck
251974
237687
14.4
0.0
Contact
Deb Nath
Hujlbur Rahean
Contact
Bleaching Ponder being Imported:
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Level
Metric Tons
Contact
Contact
Contact
Contact
Naee 1
Naee 2
Tel. 1 1 Tel. 1 2
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Kp
300
TaskJForce ships, helicopters moved to safer places
Cydtome storm erosses
‘'coastal belt today /
Staff Reporter
Coastal dwellers and off
shore islanders, who arc yet to
recover from the severe shock
caused by the April 29 catas-
UK copter
crashes into Bay
CHITTAGONG. June 1 (BSS):
A British helicopter ’Sea King'
crashed into the Bay of Bengal
of Cox's Bazar while taking off
from a British ship this morn
ing. Joint Task Force sources
said here.
All five crew of the heli
copter were safe.
trophic cyclone and tidal surge.
again ran panicky yesterday
following Met Office forecast of
another cyclone accompanied
by tidal surge that may cross
Patuakhali and Chittagong
coasts by Sunday morning.
The maritime port of Mongia
hoisted danger signal number
seven while the maritime ports
of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar
hoisted darker signal number
six respectively.
The cyclonic storm over the
north Bay and the adjoining
Bay centred about 270 kilome
ters south of Khulna town al
nine pm last night. It is likely
to intensify further and move
in a north-north castcrnly di
rection at a speed of about 25
kph. The minimum sustained
wind speed within 54 kilome
ters of the storm centre is about
80 kph raising to 100 kph—in
gust and squals.
An attempt was made to re
cover the sunken helicopter but
because of the rough sea the at
tempt was abandoned, the
sources.
The sources could not con
firm whether the ’Sea King was
carrying relief goods or not.
USS St Louis
The riverine aborts of the
districts of Khulna. Barisal.
Patuakhali. SatkhVira. Bagerhat. Barguna. Pirojjpur, Bhola.
Noakhali. Fcni. Lakichipur and
Chandpur have been\ adrised to
hoist riverine dangcrA signal No
3>
1
Under influence of cyclone
storm the districts of Khulna.
Barisal. Patuakhali. Satkhira.
Bagcrhat. Barguna. Pirojpur.
Bhola. Noakhali. Feni. Lakkhipur. Chandpur. Chitta
gong, Cox's Bazar and their
islands and chars arc likely to
experience moderate to heavy
down-pour. The low-lying
areas of the districts arci also
likely to be inundated tyy a
storm-surge of the height d\f six
to eight feet above normal «esturial tide.
\
All fishing boats arid
trawlers in the north Bay have
been advised to remain in shel
ter till further notice.
Our Khulna correspondent
adds: All precautionary mea
sures have been taken by the
local administrations in all
the coastal districts.
Khulna experienced light to
moderate rainfall accompa
nied by occasional gusty wind
during the whole day yesterday.
The. Mongia Port authority
completely suspended loading
Contd. on page 8 col 4
ithaka, Sunday, june 2, 1991
JAISTIIA IS, 1398______________________________________
Z1LQAD 18, 1411
Danger Signal No. 7 for Mongla Port, 6 for Ctg
Cyclone hits coastal areas
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Planes and helicopters belonging to the US Task Force returning to Dhaka Saturday for satefyjbllowing fresh cyclone warning in the Bat. —Times
By A Staff Reporter
The cyclonic storm over the
North Bay and the adjoining areas
in the Central Bay intensified fur
ther and moved in a north-north
easterly direction in the evening
on Saturday.
Il is likely to hit the Chitlagong-Patuakhali coast near Patuakhali by the Sunday morning,
according to Met Office forecast.
The cyclone was centred at 9 1
pm on Saturday about 270 kilmc- I
tres south of Khulna town. It is '
likely to be intensified further and ,
move in a north-north easterly di
rection at a speed of about 25
kilometres per hour.
The maximum sustained wind
within 54 kilometres of the storm
centre is about 80 kilometres per
hour rising to 100 kilometres per
hour in gust or squall.
The ports of Chittagong and
Mongla have been advised to hoist
Danger Signal No. 7 and 6 re
spectively.
Similarly, the riverine ports of
Khulna, Barisal, Patuakhali,
Salkhira, Bagcrhat, Barguna; Pirojpur, Bhola, Noakhali, Feni,
Lakmipur, Chandpur, Chittagong
and Cox's Bazar have been ad
vised to hoist signal no, 3.
All fishing boats and trawlers
in the North Bay have been ad
vised to remain in shelter till fur
ther notice.
The Met Office also forecast
moderately heavy to heavy rainfall
and a storm surge of six to eight
Sunday, June 2 1991
Many people who arc involved
with development issues have read
a recent book called Lords of__ A
PovertyJ^Macmillan London Euf?
and Atlantic Monthly Press, New
York, 1989), by Graham Hancock,
a
former
East
Africa
correspondent for The Economist.
Il is'easy to see why. The book is
an impassioned plea to the people sivcly comfortable staff working
of The industrialized world to conditions, bureaucratic squab
bles, dysfunctional political agen
close
down
the
whole
das of donor or recipients, built-in
development assistance enterprise.
In Hancock's view, the poor of preferences for big projects, and
the developing world would be so on—can be applied more or
less to the operations of most large
better off if the IMF, the World
organizations,
especially
Bank, the United Nations, the
donor agencies of the govern governmental ones.
However, he also points again
ments of the developed countries
and again to the hubris of devel
and some of the private voluntary
agencies from the North simply opment assistance and the isola
closed up shop and went away: He tion of aid staff from the lives of
is partly right. He certainly cites the poor, their intended clients.
The. same charge is easily leveled
enough examples of ineffective or
against governments of some aid
counter-productive assistance,
some of them well known in the recipient countries, since the aid
fields However, the idea of agencies work in tandem with
them.development cooperation has been
That isolation and hubris, the
so compelling—that governments
arrogance that development can be
of industrialized countries could
guided
from abroad, 1 believe, arc
speed up the economic transfor
the crux of the failures of aid. But
mation of the developing coun
in aid policy as in national
tries—that parliaments have
development policy, the answer to
funded official development assis
failed top-down economic and so
tance for over 40 years. And
cial engineering need not be
surely aid is sometimes effective
abandoning all idea of activist of
and can be made more effective in
ficial policy.
more situations.
•
-. The
. . answer could be
Maybe Hancock is too angry
greater participation of clients in
to be a reformer. One does have to
the decision-making process or,
more strongly, responsibility of
steel oneself against the cant in the
clients for the decisions.
international development dia
The aid-recipient government
logue and the politics in actual aid
that accepts this approach must be
policy. Hanging around govern
willing to take risks. Clients are .
ment legislative committees when
mobilized to help design and op
foreign aid bills are debated, one
erate
projects. Success in such
would hear how aid supports
experiences naturally leads people
strategic foreign policy goals,
to demand more control over their
promotes donor country exports
lives, more opportunities to be
and investor interests, reduces
entrepreneurial. A more assertive
agricultural surpluses, and so on.
population may bolster the gov
Aid based on need often seems to
ernment, but also might not con
be a low priority. Aid lobbyists
tinue to support it.
from church and civic groups fight
the good fight against hunger and
, The underlying presumption in
poverty, but in most countries they
donors providing foreign aid to
are not the people who make
such projects is that aid should be
development assistance policy.
aimed at assisting the poor in de
Most of Hancock’s com
veloping countries to do what they
plaints—about high salaries for
could not do by themselves or
managers and technocrats, cxceswith the inadequate financial and
OPINION
quires widespread public knowl
edge in recipient and donor coun
tries about the allocation and use
of aid resources.
pie anti-poverty approach to
aid is limited and focused on the
needs of the poor. Applying it
would be an answer to Hancock s .
slinging observation that "public i
technical resources that their own money levied in taxes from the
governments could mobilize poor of the rich countries is trans- /
domestically on their behalf.
ferred in the form of 'foreign aid' I
Certainly, developing coun to the rich in the poor countries" 1
tries need technical assistance; but (p. 181).
to maximize its effectiveness, the
I think the foreign aid estab
foreign experts who supply it lishment has played on the honest,
should be able to work closely
humanitarian impulses of voters, in
with the primary beneficiaries of donor countries. Aid has been a
the aid at all stages of a project. cover to justify many financial
Financial assistance is also war
flows, some warranted and some
ranted, but real accountability re perhaps not. This is why books
like Lords of Poverty strike a
sympathetic chord with the voting
public. Aid is in deep trouble if
those voters lose confidence in the
anti-poverty nature of aid.
For this reason, it might be
best all around to reserve the
donor government budget line
called "official development assis
tance" to anti-poverty programmes
in developing countries. It would
also make it easier for die staffs of
aid agencies to insist within their
own bureaucracies on working
.-^lorc closely with the direct
recipients of aid in the design of
programmes and projects.
Initial applications of the
model might be quite limited,
since "people power" is not
something that is within die abil
ity—let alone mandate—of aid
giving institutions to engineer.
However, ideas and information
spread across borders with cver/ increasing ease and change peo’ pie's expectations ol what is nec
essary and what is feasible.
Indeed, not all that much is
certain about how to do official
assistance on a consultative, antipbverty model. Continuing exper
imentation would be needed. But
building on a model grounded in
helping people mobilize for their
own development seems a
promising approach, one that
could become part of an acceler‘ ating evolution of more effective
and responsive political institu
tions in developing countries.
Making foreign aid work
by BARRY HERMAN
The answer to failed top-down economic
and social engineering could be greater
participation of clients in the decision
making process.
gPf SERVICE CIVIL
INTERNATIONAL-BANGLADESH
SCI IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES. FOUNDED IN 1920. SCI IS A MEMBER OF THE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CCIVS)
AND THE YOUTH FORUM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EC). IT ALSO HAS
CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH UNESCO AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE. IN
BANGLADESH SCI IS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
(REG. NO. 213 OF 1962) UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
(REGD. & CONTROL) ORDINANCE OF 1961 (XLVI-1961) AND FOREIGN DONATIONS
ORDINANCE/RULES1J78 AS AMENDED IN 1982 (REG NO R-184).
?EET ADDRESS
UNG ADDRESS
.
5/5, IQBAL ROAD. BLOCKA MOHAMMADPUR. DHAKA 1207, BANGLADESH, TEL: 313623. TELEX: 642940 ADAB BJ ATTN: SCI.
G.P.O. BOX 3254, DHAKA-1000, BANGLADESH.' *
May 30, 1991
The following International Medical Team from the International
Secretariat of SCI is placed with Emergency Relief & Medicare
Services of SCI-Bangladesh, Gonoshasthaya Kendra(GK) and Voluntary
Health Services Society(VHSS) to work in the cyclone affected
areas of greater Chittagong zone :
With SCI,
1. Mr. S.J. Chander
Community Medicines,
St. Martha's Hospital
Ujantia, Chokoria
Cox's Bazar dist.
20 Ms Beatrice Limpens
Nurse/Mid-wives
3. Mr A. Anand Kumar
Community Health Cell
Gonoshasthaya Kendra(GK)
Cox's Bazar area,
:
Voluntary Health Services
Society (VHSS)
: - i o ur. omrai rrasaa lexur
Community Health Cell
1. Dr. Sanjiv Lewin
2. Dr. Anne Marie Rego
St. Mawt^a-'s Hospital
Solz\iAi
With SCI, Char Fession
( Bhola district )
:
1o Mr laksman Wijkoon
SCI Sri Lanka
Beatrice Limpens
will be joining the team
later if her services is
required in Char Fession area.
SERVICE CIVIL
INTERNATIONAL-BANGLADESH
STREET ADDRESS
MAILING ADDRESS
:
SCI IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES. FOUNDED IN 1920. SCI IS A MEMBER OF THE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CCIVS)
AND THE YOUTH FORUM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EC). IT ALSO HAS
CONSULTATIVE STATUS WiTH UNESCO AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE. IN
BANGLADESH SCI IS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
(REG. NO 213 OF 1962) UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
(REGD. & CONTROL) ORDINANCE OF 1961 (XLVI -1961) AND FOREIGN DONATIONS
ORDINANCE/RULES 1978 AS AMENDED IN 1982 (REG. NO R 184).
5/5, IQBAL ROAD. BLOCK-A MOHAMMADPUR, DHAKA 1207, BANGLADESH. TEL: 313623. TELEX: 642940 ADAB BJ-ATTN. SCI.
G.P.O. BOX 3254, DHAKA-1000, BANGLADESH.
May 30, 1991
The following International Medical Team from the International
Secretariat of SCI is placed with Emergency Relief & Medicare
Services of SCI-Bangladesh, Gonoshasthaya Kendra(GK) and Voluntary
Health Services Society(VHSS) to work in the cyclone affected
areas of greater Chittagong zone :
With SCI,
1. Mr. S.J. Chander
Community Medicines,
St. Martha's Hospital
Ujantia, Chokoria
Cox's Bazar dist.
2. Ms Beatrice Limpens
Nurse/Mid-wives
3. Mr A. Anand Kumar
Community Health Cell
Gonoshasthaya Kendra(GK)
Cox’s Bazar area,
:
1. Dr. Sanjiv Lewin
-'zl St. Johns' Hospital
/ 2. Ms Mohini
Voluntary Health Services
Society (VHSS)
I
Nurse/Midwives
St. Martha’s Hospital
:
1o Dr. Shirdi Prasad Tekur
Community Health Cell
2. Dr. Anne Marie Rego
St. Martha's Hospital
SoVmj:
With SCI, Char Fession
( Bhola district )
1o Mr Laksman Wijkoon
SCI Sri Lanka
Beatrice Limpens
will be joining the team
later if her services is
required in Char Fession area.
: 2
:
Travel Note :
Dhaka - Chittagong
is well connected, by bus and train ( inter-city )
approximate travel time is 6 hours. Fare Taka 181o00
Chittagong - Chokoria and Cox's Bazar by Chair Coaches ( J hours to
Chokoria and 5 hours to Cox's Bazar).
Ujantia, a remote areas of Magnama Union under Chokoria Upazila
in Cox's Bazar district is connected by road ( rural muddy road )
2-3 hours by walking from Pekua bridge or 2 hours by engine fitted
country boat. It is also linked by river transport ( 4 hours by
trawler boat depending on high or low tides or else 5 hours boat
journey from Cox’s Bazar ( Depart 6:00 a.m0 and arrival at 11:00 a.mo)
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cn these columns should be
and legibly written or typed
easons of space, short letters
t subject to editing and cuts.
However, all communicas real name, signature and
Elections: India and
Bangladesh
Sir, In the wave of election
eering in India, its former
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
was brutally killed, besides
more than a hundred others
falling victims in the process
• of Indian general election. Who
knows what the deferred dates
have in store. However, we
hope for the better.
'
In contrast the general
election which took place in ■
Bangladesh on 27th Feb, 1991'
has set an example of free, fair.i
democratic election and put]
the name of Acting President
Justice Shahabuddln Ahmed In
the golden chapter of history
of Bangladesh for his conduct
ing this unparalleled peaceful
and neutral election. He and
the electorate here have set an
cxaxqplc to the world that the
Hieartlblt sincerity coupled
with unflinching determina
tion can turn the hard job into
an easy one, and sometimes
even the apparently impossible
into obviously possible.
Indeed, the combination of
these two essential qualities
should start crystalising from
the top. Only then the handful
of scattered conscious people
of the society will come out of
their hides and strengthen the
hand of the abbot. That will
generate moral courage among
the simple minded mass tofollow these good people.
A good thing in always good;
ILmay belong, to or come from
any soiJftfWr “irrespective of
cast, creed or country. If India
of tomorrow can be inspired
with the rare example set by
Bangladesh, it will gain, I be
lieve, unexpected benefit in
the field of harmony and
peace.
S. A. Hussain.
Moahbazar, Dhaka.
Elections in inaia
Sir.
In the wake of general election in
India, its Ex-Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi was brutally killed on 21st
May. 1991. besides hundred of
others in the melee.- The general
election took place in Bangladesh on
27th February 1991. It was so free
and fair that it has has been able to
establish a world record.
If India of tomorrow is inspired to
emulate the example set by Bang
ladesh. it will help them a great deal.
Bangladesh sincerely wishes all the
best for her neighbouring India.
S.A. Hussain. Moghhazar. Dhaka
•fa
.062
'
1973 when the then Awaml
League government showed to
tal disrespect to the instituInternational media has de
____ „pollstions like the Election
scribed the current Indian
as 'bloodiest ever" following
f_"_..:..„ Commission. General Ershad's
‘ regime will remain as darkest
widespread violence that erupt
ed In different parts since the period for election violence in
election campaign started six our history.
But what is happening in
weeks ago in the neighbouring
country.
India? Violence is Increasing
Every time in the Indian alarmingly in democratic
elections during all these years India while communalism is
of democracy since Indepen growing under the garb of secu
dence from the British Raj, vto- larism as Is evident with the
Jence with heavy- casualties powerful emergence of Hindu
fundamentalist party Bhar
marked what Is often the
atiya Janata Party (BJP) which
largest democracy In the world.
stands for 'Ramrajya' in
With the passing of days, the
secular India. The teaching of
rate of violence nas been in
non- violence as was preached
creasing alarmingly despite the
by Indian great leader M.K.
fact that India nas allowed
Gandhi
seems to have no ap
democracy to function for over
peal to the Indians when com
40 years.
munal Hindu-Muslim riots
From our experience what we
continue unabated throughout
find that if elections are not al
the year since 1947.
lowed to. be held freely and
Social scientists and re
fairly by the administration,
search sholars in South Asia
violence Is bound to take place
and from other parts of the
as happened during eight years
world may find these peculiar
autocratic rule of General
India phenomena as interestErshad who had tried to play
.ing subjects for their studies.
ralher ‘democracy-game1 and
AHMED M. HASAN
did not believe In democracy
Bangladesh Agriculture
itself. Bangladesh. In fact, had
University.
also bitter experience of ma
Mymcnslngh.
nipulating election results in
Violence in polls
DA 781
JAISTHA 18, 1398 BS,
DHAKA SUNDAY JUNE 2, 1991
ZILQAD 18, 1411 HIJRI
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^Inquiry report
on damage to
planes, vessels
submitted
By Staff Correspondent
Satellite picture of the cyclonic storm taken on Saturday.
■ —Courtesy : Met Office
A cyclonic storm with a
maximum windspeed of 100
kilometres per hour hit the
coastal belt of Bangladesh from
Patuakhali to Chittagong in the
early hours of today.
Th storm, the second in
just over a month, has been a
severe blow to the people of
the coastal areas who were
devastated by the April 29 cy
clone which had a maximum
windspeed of 235 kilometres
per hour and whipped up a ti
dal surge 12 to 20 feet in
height.
Low-lying areas of the
coastal districts have been in
undated both by heavy down
pours and tidal surge, six to
eight feet in height, caused by
the cyclone this morning.
The cyclone marks a slight
deviation from the normal. In
the premonsoon season cy
clones come over Bangladesh
in April and May and rarely oc
cur in the month of June.
Hamiduzzaman Khan Chow
dhury, Director, Bangladesh
Meteorological Department
told' the Daily Star last night
only in 1982 they had
recorded a cyclone in the
month of June. That cyclone
had, however, recurved after
coming over the north Bay and
moved straight eastwards be
fore hitting the Burma coast on.
June 6. Between 1970 and
1990 no more cyclones were
observed tn the Bay of Bengal
tagong.
in June.
Under the influence of the
Today’s cyclone was of a
cyclone it was raining all over
much lower intensity com
the coastal districts from Sat
pared to the April 29 cyclone
urday morning. Storm with
that left an estimated 1.4 lakh
windspeed of 20 to 30 kilome
people dead
and damaged
tres per hour was being felt in
property worth over the billion
the coastal areas of Patuakhali,
dollars. But its devastation is
Khcpupara, Bhola, Sandwjp,
feared to be substantial in
Hatiya and Fcni, according to
terms of loss of property.
reports received late last
Newly erected homes in ar
eas devastated by the April 29
night. The sky was cloudy.
cyclone are mostly temporary*
Our Chittagong correspon
dent reports: five helicopters
and are feared to have been
damaged.
of the US Joint Task Force
Reports reaching Dhaka
were flown to Dhaka on Satur
day afternoon as weathermen
from the coastal districts say,
coastal people panicked as
warned of the approaching cy
they got the information that
clone. Sources said steps were
another cyclone was approach
also taken to anchor the US
ing them.
vessel Saint Louis, which has
Volunteers of the Cyclone
been brought to the Chittagong
Preparedness Programme, and
area for relief operations, at a
people engaged by the district relatively safe place.
administrations spread warn
Intermittent rainfall due to
ing messages and started evac
the cyclone hampered relief
uating people from low lying .activities in the coastal areas
areas to-cyclone shelters and
hit by the April 29 cyclone.
highland areas, Emdad Hos
The district administrations
sain, Director Cyclone Pre
warned the people of the lowparedness Programme told the
lying areas and shifted them to
Daily Star.
safe places.
A Met office source said
The cyclonic storm was
that the fury of the cyclone was
persisting in south-east Bay
likely to be felt in more areas
and adjoining east central Bay
than the one of April 2p.
in the form of a depression on
Whereas the main body of
Friday evening. By Saturday
the April 29 cyclone had
morning it intensified into a
crossed the Chittagong Cox's
deep depression before taking
Bazar coasts, the main body
the shape of a cyclonic storm
today's cyclone moved over the
by the afternoon.
coasts from Patuakhali to Chit
Met Office said, by 9am last
night the cyclonic storm was
centred at 270 kilometres
south of Khulan town. The
maximum sustained wind
speed within 54 kilometres of
the cyclone centre was 80
kilometres per hour rising to
100 kilometres per hour in
gusts or squalls.
Met Office advised the mar
itime port of Mongla to hoist
danger Signal No7 and to ports
of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar
Danger Signal No 6 .
River ports of the districts
of Khulna, Barisal, Patuakhali,
Satkhira, Bagcrhat, Barguna,
Pirojpur, Bhola, Noakhali, Fcni,
Laksmipur, Chandpuf, Chit
tagong and Cox's Bazar Were
advised to hoist Danger Signal
No 3 (three).
Met Office said under the
influence of the cyclonic storm
these districts, their offshore
islands and chars were to ex
perience moderate to heavy
downpour and their lowlying
areas to get inundated by
storm surge of six to eight feet
in height.
By last midnight the cy
clone reached upto 175 kilo
metres south of Khulna town.
Khulna and its adjoining areas
were experiencing strong
winds under peripheral effect
of the cyclone.
An emergency meeting of
the Cyclone Preparedness Pro
gramme
Implementation
See Page 10 Col. 2
The two-member Commf, ssion of Enquiry, constituted
earlier to probe into the
damage of aircraft of the
Bangladesh Air Force and ves
sels of the Bangladesh Navy
during the recent cyclone and
tidal surge in Chittagong, sub
mitted its report, reports BSS.
Justice Eatifur Rahman, the.
senior member of the commis
sion, submitted the report to
Acting President Justice
Shahabuddin Ahmed at his of
ficial residence in Dhaka on
Saturday evening.
The Acting President than
ked the members of the
See Page 10 Col. 6
L /British copter
x sinks in Bay
CHITTAGONG, June 1: A
British helicopter ferrying re
lief to cyclone survivors
ditched in the Bay of Bengal
this morning but all five people
aboard were rescued, Com
mander of the US Task Force
said, reports UNB.
Maj Gen Henry Stackpole
said the accident took place off
Cox's Bazar near the British
Royal Fleet Auxiliary's 23,000ton supply ship 'Fort Grange'
where the helicopter was
based.
'There were no injuries and
the five people are back on the
Fort Grange", he said. "I'm just
gratified there was no loss of
life." <
The assurance was given
when three-member EEC ap
praisal mission met Agricul
ture and Irrigation, Water De
velopment and Flood Control
Minister Major General M MaJid-Ul-Haq (Retd) at his secre
tariat Saturday.
The mission expressed sat
isfaction over the achievement
in cotton development project
last year.
They will undertake study
for identifying the area for
providing further assistance in
cotton research and develop
ment during the 4th five year
plan period.
EEC assistance now totals at
about Tk 26 crore was ex
tended since to the project
was launched In 1982.
The members of the EEC
mission include Guy Mahadavi,
Folloin and David Pray. The
Executive Director of Cotton
Development Board was pre
sent at the meeting.
AFmy nave ocen continuing
their relief activity along with
the local administration, NGOs
and other concerned authori
ties.
Comilla area troops Satur
day distributed huge quantity
of relief goods among the cy
clone and flood victims at
Sandwip, Hatiya, Char Alexandar.
Navy
Bangladesh Navy ships in
addition to relief work contin
ued their search and salvage
mission to locate and salvage
the vessles sunk during the
recent cyclone in Chittagong
harbour.
The naval divers and sur
veyors in cooperation of the
Chittagong Port Authority so
far salvaged seven sunken ves. seis of different organisations
while three bigger vessels
were located by the naval
divers.
BCR
The Y members of. the
Bangladesh Rifles have been
continuing its relief, rehabilita
tion and medicare operations
BDR personnel on Saturday
distributed huge quantity of
relief goods and cash money
among the cyclone victims of
TeknEd-, Nikhongchari, Ukhiya
and Moheskhali upazllas.
satio11 nad launched a drive to
collect fund for the cyclone af
fected people of Bangladesh.
Kari>n appealed to the
Bangladeshis living in Japan to
donate generously to the fund.
SenaParibar
Embassy in Japan
Japanese people towards
Prime Minister's Relief Fund.
Japanese individuals, stu-.
dents, foundations and organi
sation deposited the money as
donations with the bank ac-'
count.
Sena Paribar Kalyan Samity
and Army Officers Ladies Club
handed over a huge quantity of
relief materials to the Army
Releif Co-ordiantion Cell for
distribution among the cyclone
and tidal bore-affected people.
Patron of the Samity and
the Club Begum Sophia Khan
handed over the releif goods to
the chief co-ordinator of the
cell and commander, Log Area,
Brigadier Mafizur Rahman
Chowdhury Saturday morning.
Bangladesh Embassy ir
Japan has sent Taka 3.22 cron
In two instalments to the Min
Ncwspapers and TV media
widely publicised the cmbassy's appeal for donations for
ITT-’"
3A_ r
The Chancellor and two
students of Liberty Christian
School of Seoul called on
Bangladesh Ambassador in
South Korea and handed over
cheques for 854.97 US dollars
as donations towards the
Prime Minister's Relief Fund,
an official handout said.
The students raised the
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Tk 39.30 lakh
donated to PM's
Relief Fund
Different individuals ant
organisations Saturday, do
nated Taka 39.30 lakh to th<
Prime Minister's Relief Fund
reports BSS.
Prime Minister Begurr.
Khaleda Zia received the do
nations Saturday evening at
her Sugandha office.
]
The donating organisations!
and individuals included IFIC I
Bank, Loyed’s Registers, Nip- |
pon Liner, Bangladesh Archi-i
tccts Institute, Prof AQSM
. Harun, Shlshu Kalyan Parishad,
Annesha International School
and Swapan Kumar Sarkar.
Scouts
Bangladesh Scouts was con
tinuing its relief operation. It
has already sent three relief
teams to the affected areas
with huge relief materials and
will send more teams to the
coastal areas. The scouts also
conducted a survey in worse
hit Banskhali upazila.
APFS
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Government of the People's
Republic of Bangladesh
V <' Director, Stores & Supplies Office
Central Medical Depot,
Tejgaon, Dhaka
Emergency Short
Tender Notice
Sealed tenders are invited from Bangladeshi
manufacturers/suppliers enlisted in group ’B' under Central
Medical Depot, Tejgaon, Dhaka for the financial year 199091 (1397-98 BS) for emergency supply of hospital equipment
viz 'iron cot', 'foam mattress', 'bedside locker', 'hospital bed
sheet’ etc. from their ready stock to this office, for sending
that to the cyclone affected areas.
Asian People's Friendship
Society (APFS) in Tokyo has
expressed deep sympathy and
sorrow for the cyclone affected
people of Bangladesh.
A message received in
Dhaka Saturday said the Gen-
99,588 co-op
societies
operating
Total 99,588 cooperative
societies of farmers, women
and bittaheen (assetless peo
ple) with a total membership
of more than 33 lakh are op
erating in the country under
593 central cooperative soci
eties, reports BSS
tims. Held at the auditori^^^H
Shlshu Academy, the funt^^B
was inaugurated . by Faye
Altncd, Convener of Sammilita
Sangskritik Jote. Prominent
artists including Abul Hayat,
Asaduzzaman Nur, Subir Nandi
Lucky Inam, Shukla Sarkar
Fakir Alamgir and members of
Rishis Shilpi Goshti partici
pated in the function.
The German Ambassador in Bangladesh Dr Karl-Heinz Scholtyssek handing over relief
materials to an officialof the relief committee at Zia International Airport.
—PID photo
Bly passen
fake ticket
By Staff Cc
Authorities of Laksharr
railway station issued some
tickets for Laksham-Dhaka trip
by 'Urmi Express (Aruna)'
though there was no schedule
of the service on May 27.
One of the aggrieved pas
sengers of the train, Abdu
Barck, told this Corresponden
that the booking clerk of th*
station issued him on May 26
six tickets for the trip on Ma
27 at 9.30 am.
PROBLEMS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Bamgladesla Needs si PeMBanemt Tsisk Fore©
HE first concern in an
effective disaster man
agement must, indeed,
be the saving of human life.
This, in turn, will bring into
sharp focus the entire gamut of
the early warning system and
the facilities for rapid
evacuation of people from
areas facing imminent threat
of a cyclone/tidal bore strike.
Listening to the radio on
the night of the 29-30th April,
the threat of imminent disas
ter was quite clear. Marine
signals, 9 at Cox’s Bazar, 10 at
Chittagong and 8 at Chalna,
coupled with inland water
Great Danger Signal number 4
along the entire length of the
estuary provided sufficient
indication of the imminent
disaster. The only problem was
that the movement of the cy
clone was not very clear to the
layman and at no stage did
specific areas get pinpointed
for instant evacuation. This
needs to be looked into for fu
ture improvement of the early
warning system.
Perhaps for a better under
standing of the problem, one
could consider the behaviour
of two groups lying at the op
posite ends of the population
spectrum. Some of the more
educated and disciplined
groups, including members of
the armed forces, physically
located at the Patenga area
and having all the facilities of
communication and trans
portation needed for rapid
evacuation, would represent
one end of the spectrum. The
failure of this group to respond
to the warning signals would
certainly point to the need, for
more effective measures to en
sure that the gravity of the im
pending calamity Is better ap
preciated by the target audi
ence.
T
by Kaiser Rasheed
The proposed Task Force could interface with the civilian government and voluntary
agencies under an apex national authority acting directly under the head ofgovernment.
The other end of the spec
trum would be the ordinary,
uneducated cultivators and
fishermen inhabiting far flung
remote areas of the coastal belt
with little or no access to ei
ther communication or means
of rapid transportation and in
most cases, with no safe haven
within easy reach.
For them, the next step
would, perhaps, be to improve
communications wherever
possible and to regulate habita
tion In the more remote and
inaccessible coastal areas. In
the latter case, other factors
causing reluctance among the
people to abandon their
homesteads will also need to
be considered. Provision of
more adequate cyclone shel
ters within easier reach, con
struction of a network of em
bankments and other medium
and long term programmes
will necessarily follow. In the
meantime, regulation of human
habitation in such remote ar
eas, coupled with improve
ment in the land administra
tion system along with intro
duction of some form of collec
tive security in addition to ap
propriate insurance schemes
could all be undertaken in the
first phase of rehabilitation.
This would all contribute to a
higher rate of timely evacua
tion in the event of future
calamity.
To remain confined to the
specific objective of life saving,
the next tiling that requires
careful consideration is the lo
gistics and deployment capa
bility in the immediate after
math of natural disaster and
the need for the most effective
possible mobilization of na
tional and international (if
need be) resources for relief.
In the post disaster phase, a
great deal can be achieved if
deployment could be speeded
up. The reaction time needs to
be shortened to the barest
minimum. Supplies and logis
tics for instant deployment
should remain in place as a
standing arrangement periodi
cally updated and subjected to
regular drills to maintain a
high level of efficiency and
preparedness.
It is obvious that much of
this is beyond our capacity to
implement, both in terms of
resources as well as manage
ment capability. Our objective
should be to acquire sufficient
capability to provide the infras
tructure around which a mas
sive buildup can take place
with the least possible delay.
It has been found from past
experience that the most effi
cient means of providing im
Starving survivors anxiously look for food packets being air dropped at devastated Sonadia.
Can we save these people from the next disaster?
— Star photo.
mediate relief is through de
ployment of the armed forces.
The setting up of a perma
nent task force composed of
appropriate units constituting
the backbone of a future disas
ter management action plan
would appear to be a logical
step. This force could interface
with the civilian government
and voluntary agencies under
an apex national authority act
ing directly under the head of
government. With the UN
Disaster Relief Organization
and other International agen
cies providing liaison and
other appropriate inputs, such
a national body could be orga
nized to handle all matters re
lating to future disaster man
agement.
The existence of such a
specialised agency would go a
long way to ensure thal in
times’ of natural disasters,
there will be no gap between
the assessment of Bangladesh
and that of the world commu
nity. Participating countries
could then shorten their reac
tion time in making men and
material available for rapid
deployment whenever neces
sary.
The impact of the recent
cyclone, tidal bore and exten
sive floods on national plan
ning is likely to be significant
and far reaching. This will cer
tainly play havoc with existing
priorities. As it is, we are in
the midst of reappraisal and
restructuring on a national
scale. The 29 different studies
conducted by national experts
under the leadership of
Professor Rehman Sobhan, will
stand us in good stead. These
studies were undertaken by
eminent national experts in an
environment of neutrality and
freedom. They were not'pre
pared as blueprints of any par
ticular government or party.
All those concerned with de
velopment
activities
in
Bangladesh will do well to ac
quire at least a nodding ac
quaintance with these studies
because they do represent a
unique national effort.
Needless to say, anything
that is done for future disaster
management would need to be
integrated with the evolving
national planning effort. Prone
as we arc to such colossal nat
ural disasters, we need to take
immediate steps to set up a
permanent organisation for
disaster management and also
contribute to the growing
awareness in favour of a con
certed multinational effort in
this regard.
In order to achieve all this
and more there is need for a
revival of the national spirit.
While we mourn the dead let
there also be thanksgiving for
all those who have been saved.
Let this nation also acknowl
edge an abiding debt to all
those who have contributed to
the relief effort and engaged in
the task of bringing succour to
humanity in distress — for
gratitude is a noble sentiment
and in the ultimate analysis,
humanity itself is all about no
bility of the spirit without
which great achievements arc
seldom possible.
A former diplomat and an
expert on national and interna
tional affairs, the writer is now
a free lance contributor to the
local press.
DHAKA SUNDAY JUNE 2/1991
Metropolitan
\Dhaka Day by Day
When Arthritis Cannot Hold
Back Artistic Urges
byFayzaHaq
A. A- Sultan had been a victim of arthritis for purple horses reminded you of the animals in
decades. But that was not the reason why he Picasso's works. In "Scnorita with the Rooster"
the style remained the same. It was an ex
had abandoned his painting career years ago.
Thirty years back Sultan could not make tremely colourful composition with the vermi
ends meet with his painting alone. He had his lion of the cock's head dominating the scene.
first solo painting exhibition in ’57 and had ZaiAn elephant with its young one was depict
nul Abcdin as his teacher and latci; his brother ed with deft strokes of pink and yellow. There
in-law. Yet his contacts did not help him earn a was only a hint of a tree with the black sketch
living. With his wife and two daughters to care es in the background. But it delineated the
for, he went in for more stable jobs such as in a theme of the forest in the background quite
printing press and in a'plastic industry busi aptly. Once again, the intention was to please
ness. He did keep in touch with his paintings the eye rather than leach a didactic lesson or
but it was as a
convey some
Sunday artist.
message of
He was a ninesocio
to-five office
economic or
worker even
of political in
when he went"
terest, which
to London for
is what one
three years.
finds in the
Now that
works
of
his two grown
young artists
up daughters
in Dhaka to
are well esta
day.
blished abroad
Tn Win
Sultan has in
ter" showed a
dulged in the
tree
luxury
of
dead
with
painting on a
leaves tossed
grand scale
about. It was
once again. In
done in a
the bridging
clever and
30 years the
skillful style,
artist
had
and the effect
The
Cock
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done scores of
was pleasing
paintings and sold them overseas in places like to the eye. In the "Fishseller" despite the CubisUSA. But he never managed to accumulate Uc attempt to delineate the subject, the piece
enough pieces, or to gather the gumption to had remarkable realism. The colours were once
have a solo exhibit for a second time, until re again buoyant and full of enthusiasm.
cently.
i A, cPlld had bccn represented m a ball of ycl’Today the art movement is progressive and low In A Family ". AU you could see of the wornwe have a few buyers. But these usually remain “
h/r"uThc "Ws foce was like a tin
the French, German and other foreign patrons. mask. With all the yellow. *“en and purple It
The large commercial houses in Bangl^^sh was_undoubtedly a colour^ rrcatlon llke^e
Tk 135 cr hides,
skin unsold
Bangladesh Tanners Asso
ciation on Saturday urged the
government to withdraw ban
on export of wet blue leather,
reports BSS.
Addressing a press confer
ence at a hotel Munsur Ahmed,
Chairman of the association
said because of the ban on the
.export of the wet blue leather
the leathers industry was on
the verge of the extinction and
the nation was being deprived
of Taka 215 crore a year as ex
port earnings.
Ahmed said, hides and skin
worth Taka 135 crore had
been lying in godowns since
the ban in January 1990.
Alhaj Syedul Haq,. Alhaj
Shahajahan Vice-presidents of
the association, Abdul Hye and
other leaders were also pre
sent.
The leaders of the associa
tion demanded withdrawal of
the certificate cases field by
different commercial banks
against defaulting borrowers.
formulation of the guidelines of
the industry and, constitution
of an enquiry committee,
comprising representatives of
the Ministry of Commerce, and
Industry to probe the prevail
ing situation in the industry.
70,000 children
died in cyclone
By Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh Human Rights
Commission said that 70 thou
sand children died and other
30 thousand had become or
phan in April 29 cyclone in the
coastal areas.
The commission also ex
pressed that the children of
the Third World were ne
glected.
At a meeting held at its Pu------ nffiee in the city'
Abdur Rahman Biswas, Speaker of the Parliament and a four®
addressing the Annual General Meeting of the Bangladesh In®
Legal Affairs with Justice Abdur Rahman Chowdhury, Pres®
chair (first on left). Also on the dias are Barrister K S Nabi, SI
Mahbubuddin Ahmed, Vice-President of the organisation, SIB
and Dr Mustafizur Rahman, an eminent eye specialist.
Call for united eff
restore peace on ct
By Staff Correspondent
Institute of Human Rights
and Legal Affairs, Bangladesh at
a resolution of its Annual
General Meeting Saturday ex
pressed deep concern over the
prevailing unrest at universi
ties and appealed to all con
cerned for unitedly efforts to
restore peace and sanctity.
Held at a local hotel in the
city, the AGM of the institute
was chaired by Justice Abdur
Rahman Choudhury, President
of the organisation.
Another resolution of the
meeting welcomed formation
of a democratic government in
the country through a free and
fair elections and hoped that
this would usher in a new era
of peace, stability and progress
in all spheres of our national
life.
The meeting expressed
deep shock at the deaths
caused by the recent dcvaslating cyclone and tidal surge in
the coastal belts and off-shore
islands.
It also appreciated the
'sincere' effort of the government to bring the relief and
succour to the distressed and
suffering humanity.
The meeting also urged the
government not to impose any
fresh tax on the people in the
ensuing budget and to observe
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Cyclonic storm
may hit today
The cyclonic storm formed over
the north bay is likely to hit the
Bangladesh coast with a speed of 80
to 100 kilometers per hour on Sun
day morning (today).
According to Dhaka Met Office,
the districts of Khulna. Barisal.
Patuakhali. Satkhira. Bagcrhat. Bar-.
guna. Pirojpur. Bhola, Noakhali,
Feni. Luxmipur. Chandpur. Chitta
gong and Cox’s Bazar, their offshore
islands and char areas are likely to
experience moderate to heavy down
pour and their low-lying areas may
be inundated by a storm surge of six
to eight feet high above the normal
astronomical tide under the influence
of the cyclonic storm.
The cyclonic storm moved north/
north eastward and may intensify
and centered at about 270 kilometers
south of Khulna al 9 p.m. on Satur
day. The storm is likely to intensify
further and may move in north/north
easterly direction at a speed of 25
kilometers per hour arid may cross
Patuakhali and Chittagong coast
Sunday morning.
The maximum sustained wind
within the 45 kilometers pf the storm
centre is 80 kilometer per hour rising
to 100 kilometers in gust and squall.
The earitEme pgrts Gf Kh-lna Das
b%en a'viseS to Geep 'oisted danger
signal No. 7 and the maritime ports
of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar have
Staff Correspondent
property of the people in view of the
been advised to keep hoisted danger
impending cyclonic storm.*
signal No. 6.
The meeting presided over by
The river ports of the districts of
Stale Minister for Relief Lutfar Rah
Khulna. Barisal. Patuakhali. Sat
man Khan decided to lake measures.
khira. Bagerhat. Barguna. Pirojpur.
to face the calamity and protect the
Bhola, Noakhali. Feni. Jessore.
life and property of the people. The
Chandpur. Chittagong and Cox's
decisions include issuance of direc
Bazar have been advised to keep
tive to the local administration in the
hoisted riverine danger signal No. 3.
coastal areas to evacuate the people
The Bangladesh coast is going to
to safer places, opening of a control
face another catastrophe barely with
room in the relief ministry (or work
in a monAh. T'e cyclonic storm . ing round the clock and issuance of
accompanied by 20 feet high tidal
directive to the concerned authorities
bore ravaged the southern coast in
to take precautionary steps.
cluding.- Sandwip.
Chittagong.
Relief Secretary M. Akhtar Ali.
Kutubdia. Cox's Bazar. Bhola. ManDirector General of Relief and Re
pura. Hatiya on April 29 taking a toll
habilitation Directorate. Secretary
of at least half a million people.
General of Bangladesh Red Crescent
Tomorrows storm may further add to
Society. Chief Delegate of Red Cross
the wounds.
Society and Representatives of con
BSS adds: Another report from
cerned ministries and divisions were
Khulna: Khulna experienced light to
present at the meeting.
moderate rainfall accompanied by
occasional gusty wind during the
whole day Saturday following the
depression formed in the bay and
located about three hundred forty
kilometres away from Khulna.
Steps to save
life, property
An emergency meeting of the Cyc
lone Preparedness Programme Im
plementation Board Saturday took
several decisions to save the life and
BDR members working
2* in cyclone-hit areas
DHAKA, UNB: Bangladesh
rifles arc continuing relief, reha
bilitation activities and medicare
in the cyclone-hit southern areas
of the country.
The BDR personnel Saturday
distributed Tk 30,000 in cash and
39,570 kg wheat, 2,225 pieces of
shari, 15 gunny bags containing
old garments, 55 pieces of jug,
530 pieces of baby suits, 5 pot ed
ible oil, among the cyclone victims
of Tcknaf upazila.
They also despatched relief
materials like oral saline, water
purifying tablets, readymade wear,
blanket, utensils, flattened rice,
sugar, molasses, dal biscuiols and
Tk 7,500 in cash to victims of
Nikhongchari upazila, said a press
release.
Relief materials distributed in
affected Ukhiya upazila on Satur
day included Tk 9,000, sari blan
kets. biscuits molasses old gar
ments and utensils.
In Cox’s Bazar they distributed
29,900 kg wheat, 1500 kg edible
oil and Tk 25,000.
The BDR medical teams are’
operating in Dhalgata and Matarbari unions of Moheshkhali
upazila.
BDR members working
in coastal areas
DMAKA, BSS: The members
of the Bangladesh Rifles arc con
tinuing their relief, rehabilitation
and medicare operations in the cy
clone-hit coastal areas, a BDR
press release said here Wednes
day.
More than 10 sections of BDR
personnel and 15 BDR medical
teams arc working round-lheClock' in relief, rehabilitation and
medicare operations in lhe cyclone
and tornado affected areas of Moheskhali, Tcknaf and Cox's Bazar'
sadar upazilas. One BDR medical
team is operating in the Moheskhali upazila.
BDR personnel distributed
cash Tkaka 29,50 and 16.170 kg
rice among the cyclone victims of
Cox's Bazar sadar upazila.
BDR personnel, distributed
775 pieces of old garments, 313
pieces of soap and 60 kg rice
among the distressed people of
Mohcskhali Upazila. BDR medical
teams attended 72 injured persons
and distributed medicines among
lhe victims of the same areas.
BDR personnel also disiributed 6.750 kg rice, 19 bags old
garments, 9 pieces sari and 6
pieces lungi among lhe tornado af
fected people of Nhila union of
Teknaf upazila, lhe press release'
added.
CARITAS
Caritas, a local NGO, in addilion to their ongoing emergency
relief activities for April 29 Cy
clone victims is assisting the flood
victims of greater Sylhct district,
according to a press release.
Caritas Emergency Relief ac
tivities amounting to Tk. 700000
(seven lakh) will cover 2300 flood
affected families of five Upazila
of greater Sylhet and Moulavi
Bazar.
Besides, Caritas has also allo
cated an amount of Tk. 2000000/-
(two lakh) for the May 18 Tornado
victims of Goumadi Upazila.
SCI RELIEF ACTIVITIES
The 13th contingent of Service
Civil International (SCI)—
Bangladesh left Dhaka on Thurs
day with one truck-load of relief
materials and emergency shelter
materials for distribution among
most needy cyclone victims of
Ujanlia village and Ward No. 3 of
Magnama Union under Chokoria
Upazila in Cox's Bazar district.
The despatched materials in
clude lentil 854kgs., emergency
food 40 ctns, biscuit 48 containers,
tent 42 pcs., plastic sheet 400 me
ters and water can.4 6
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Khulna and Dhaka division‘cxperaini'all accompanied by occarairii'all accompanied by occa
feel height above normal tide in
ricnccd moderate to heavy rainfall
sional gusty wind during the
the coastal districts.
on Saturday. The sky remained
whole day today (Saturday) fol
Meanwhile, the volunteers of
overcast with cloud and the rain
lowing the depression formed in
the Cyclone Preparedness Pro
fall continued over coastal districts
lhe Bay and located about 340 km
gramme came out with mega
till writing this report at 11 pm.
away from Khulna.
phones announcing in the coastal
Our Staff Correspondent from
districts to announce the warning
COX'S BAZAR
Khulna adds: Cargo handling ac
and call for taking shelter.
Our Correspondent from Cox’s
tivities have been suspended al
Officials and executives at the
Bazar reports: Elaborate precau
Mongla Port since 4 pm today
Cyclone Preparedness Programme (Saturday) in view of inclement
tionary measures have been taken
(CPP) headquarters in Dhaka were weather. 15 vessels including two
here to shift people to safer places
on emergency duty to coordinate
including cyclone shelters in case
foodgrain ships arc now al the
Ute preparation.
Port.
cyclone hits die area.
The panick striken people were
All types of water crafts in
An emergency mceing of die
being taken to shelters by the vol
Sub-regional Relief Coordination
cluding tugs, barges and launches
unteers of CPP in the coastal belt.
Committee was held today
have been directed to move to
The cyclone shelters were filled nearby creeks and canals from the . (Saturday) under the chairmanship
up by 10 pm on Saturday, said an
of Omar Faruq, a joint secretary to
mid-steam of the river Passur at
executive of Red Crescent Society. Mongla.
the government, who was earlier
Meanwhile, the operation of
posted here in connection with
An official of the district au
the US Task Force was suspended
April 29 cyclone..
thority said that instructions have
following the bad weather. The
The meeting was attended by
been issued this (Saturday)
helicopters engaged in relief oper
evening to the Upazila authority to
government officers of various
ation in the affected areas were
departments and leaders of differ
remove the inhabitants from vul
brought to Dhaka, the Task Force nerable villages of nine Upazilas
ent political parties.
chief told newsmen.
of the zone.
Later, Mr Omar Faruq told the
Under the .nfiuence of the cy
Meanwhile BSS adds: Khulna
Times that 57 cyclone shelters of
clone. most places in Chittagong, experienced light to moderate
the district 45 belonging to the
government and 12 to the Red
government and 12 to the Red
Crescent Society—have been kept
ready to provide shelter to the cy
clone battered people.
Besides, instructions had been
issued to Upazila administrations
to utilise premises of schools and
colleges for the purpose.
The coordinators said that
people were being informed of the
impending danger over loud
speakers and fishing boats and
trawlers had already taken shelter
to safer places.
Instructions had also been
given to keep in hand necessary
emergency stock of dry food, wa
ter, orsalinc and emergency drugs.
. He said that a number of
mechanised boats had also been
kept ready for rescue operation, if
necessary.
US TASK FORCE
Meanwhile, UNB reports: The
Commander of the US Joint Task
Force (JTF) today (Saturday )
ordered a suspension ol his forces'
relief efforts due to an impending
srnrm hrewtno tn ihn
storm brewing in the Bay of Be.
gal off lire cyclonb-baltercd coa
of the country.
Major General Henry (
Stackpole ordered the five rcmait
ing Blackhawk helicopters panic:
paling in lhe relief operation to f
to Dhaka to ride oul the storm.
The choppers have arrive
Dhaka Saturday afternoon.
The supply ship USS St. Lou
of the JTF, with about 300 saile
and 200 marines aboard, als
sailed south to a safe anchorage.
During a visit to the St. Lou
Saturday morning, the US Gcncr
asked the sailors and marines
pray that lire storm would be mil
"We don't need another cj
clone. We don't need another lid
wave and more winds to damag
what has already been put bat
together", Stackpole said.
Operation Sea Angel, whit
has distributed more than 3,(X
tons of relief goods to the affect
people, is scheduled to be clos
by June 8 and other relief pn
gramme ending by June 15.
'Armed Forces
relief work
^continues 4Relief operations by the Armed
Forces at cyclone hit coastal and
off-shore islands are going on. an
ISPR release said, reports BSS.
Members of the army have been
continuing their relief activity along
with the local administration. NGOs
and other concerned authorities.
Comilla area troops Saturday dis
tributed more than 32 metric tons of
foodstuff including rice, wheat, alia.
chira. potato, dal and soyabean oil.
33 and a half metric tons of
keroshene oil and other relief mate
rials including biscuits, tinned food.
blankets, plastic containers, relief
boxes, readymade garments, mark
ing cloth and sharcc among the
cyclone victims at Sandwip. Haliya
and Char Alexandar.
They also distributed more than 56
metric tons of relief goods among the
flood victims of Sylhet. Sunamganj
and Habiganj Saturday. These relief
materials included rice, wheat, atta.
chira. gur. sugar, milk powder.
bread, potato, saree. lungi. different
types of clothes, old cloth, shirt.
match boxes, utensils, jerrycans.
■hurricanes and medicine.
e|1 Bangladesh navy ships in addition
■to, relief work continued their search
■and salvage mission to locate and
■salvage the vessles sunk during the
■recent cyclone in Chittagong har■bour.
■ The naval divers and surveyors in
■oopcration of the Chittagong Port
^Biuthority so far salvaged seven sunk^■*n vessels of different organisations
^Hvhiile three bigger vessels were Io■-’ated by the naval divers.
Meanwhile, the naval personnel
■now engaged in relief mission in the
^Hcoastal areas constructed 70 houses
■distroyed by the cyclone in Sandwip.
■
BDR
■ Another report Adds: The mem■ hers of the Bangladesh Rifles have
■ been continuing its relief, rehabilita■ tion and medicare operations in the
■iyclonc hit areas ol southern Banc- i
^Hidesh. Press release of BDR said
Saturday BDR personnel dislri^■uted 39570 kg wheat. 2225 pieces of
^■ree. 15 gunny bags of old gar*
^■ents. cash Tk.30.000 (thirty
■flmisand) 55 pieces of Jug. 530
■pieces ol baby suits. 5 pot edible oil.
■ ' pieces of lamp. 1 bundle and 36
■dozens of safety matches. 3 bundles
■of candle I gunny bag of flour. I bag
■sugaf. 30 pieces of'ferrycan and 2
| pieces of hurricane among the cyc
lone victims ol Teknaf upazila.
BDR personnel distributed 1000
pieces of oral saline and waler purify ing tablets. -16 pieces of shan. 64
pieces of baby suits. 36 pieces of vest
cotton. 7 pieces of Thami. 5 pieces of
blouse. 65 pieces of old doth. 17
pieces of blanket. 6 pieces of cup. 4
pieces ol glass. 104 pieces of. plastic
pot. 8 tin biscuits. 65 kg chira. 15 kg
molasses. 85 kg sugar. 4 bags of dal
and cash Taka.' 7.500/-' (sewn
thousand five hundred) among the
victims of tornado affected areas of
Nikhongchari Upazila.
BDR personnel also distributed
cash Ik. 9.000/- (nine thousand). 24
pieces ol vest cotton. 3 pieces of
thami. 28 pieces of shari. 3 pieces of
blouse. 14 pieces of blanket. 5 tin ol
biscuits. 60 kg chira. 17 kg molasses.
59 pieces of old garments and 3
pieces of cup among the cvclonc
victims of Ukhiya Upazila.
The member'of the Bangladesh
Reiiles also distributed 29.900 kn
wheat, 1500 kg edible oil and cash
Taka. 25.000 (twenty-five thosuand)
among the victims of Cox's. Bazar
Sadar Upazila.
BDR medical team's also operminu
in the cyclone affected areas of Dl'-a
gala and Malarbari Unions °
Mohcskhali Upazila
$385-639m aid .r
cyclone victims
Forty-one countries and nine inter
national agencies have pledged
385-639 million US Dollars so far for.
the cyclone-victims of the country.
an official handout said in Dhaka on
Thursday, reports BSS.
Over 350 million US Dollars of the
total committed foreign assistance
would be provided fhrough the Gov
ernment of Bangladesh while 26-244
million US Dollars and 9-218 million I
US Dollars would be given through
NGOs and Red Cross and Red Cres
cent Societies respectively.
Of the total aid commitment, food
aid amounts to over 45 million US
Dollars, cash aid over 39 million US
Dollars and relief materials more
than 178 million US Dollars, the;
handout said.
Food aid includes 195.500 tonnes
of wheat and 21.500 tonnes of rice.
Commitment of foreign assistance
for relief and rehabilitation in the
cyclone-affected areas is still being
made, the handout added.
CARE, UK
The British Government will give
CARE (Britain) PDS 20.000 (Taka
13 lakh) to help families affected by
the recent flooding in the districts of
Sylhet. Moulvibazar and Habiganj.
CARE will use the British Funds
to deliver emergency packages to
8.000 families. CARE has already
given ration packages to 3,500 fami
lies of the flood-affected areas of
Sylhet and will deliver 4.500 more
packages over the next week to assist
about 48,000 people. Already 2.500
packages have been distributed in
Zakiganj Upazilaand 1.000 packages
in Kanaighat Upazila. These pack
ages contain essential goods like
chira. molasses, salt, candles and
match boxes with rations sufficient
for seven days. Each family receives
twenty water purification tablets and
five packets of oral rehydration salts.!
Health' teams working alongside dis
tribution teams explain how to use.
ORS and WPT properly.
Through CARE Britain is support
ing Friends in Village Development
Bangladesh (FRIVDB) and Gra
meen Janakallyan Sangsad. two
Sylhet-based NGOs to ensure
appropriate health coverage in the
affected-areas.
Tragedy And
Sir.
This refers to a letter under the
above caption appearing in the Bang
ladesh Observer dated 22-5-91. The
remarks of an official of an Interna
tional Relief Agency that Bang
ladeshis are past masters in exagger
ating the damages and casualty fi
gures during national calamities and
disasters only to squeeze more fore
ign aids "are not at all suprising
although not true atleast this time.
During ex-Presidcnt Mr. Ershad's ,
regime, the video tape casseets of
1988 floods were sent to all impor- .
tant cities of the world andwere still
shown till last vear in even- channel
of TV in t he USA. showing Mr.
Ershad wading through knecldcep
waters of flood. And in one of your
recent editorials, you observed that!
relief materials were sold in; open'
market freely. Your papers made
screaming head lines that 50.000
people arc feared dead in ‘ 1988
floods, while the government figures
are barely 3000 only.
The donor countries and NGOs
OXFAM. UNDP etc are not so naive
to believe such exaggerated figures
because thev themselves work in the
field and see things for themselves.
Our media should exercise some
restraints in such matters. .
N.H. Sufi. Tajmahal Road. Dhaka.
SCI IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES FOUNDED IN 1920. SCI IS A MEMBER OF THE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CCIVS)
AND THE YOUTH FORUM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EC). IT ALSO HAS
CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH UNESCO AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN
BANGLADESH SCI IS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
(REG. NO. 213 OF 1962) UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
(REGD. & CONTROL) ORDINANCE OF 1961 (XLVI-1961) AND FOREIGN DONATIONS
ORDINANCE/RULES 1978 AS AMENDED IN 1982 (REG NO. R-184)
gss scrvicc civil
gjfij INTERNATIONAL-BANGLADESH
STREET ADDRESS
MAILING ADDRESS
:
5/5, IQBAL ROAD, BLOCK-A MOHAMMADPUR, DHAKA 1207, BANGLADESH TEL: 313623. TELEX: 642940 ADAB BJ-ATTN: SCI.
G.P.O. BOX 3254. DHAKA-1000, BANGLADESH.
May 30, 1991
The following International Medical Team from the International
Secretariat of SCI is placed with Emergency Relief & Medicare
Services of_SCI-Bangladesh, Gonoslhasthaya Kendra(GK) z id Voluntary
Health Services Society(VHSS) th work in the cyclone affected
areas of greater Chittagong zone :
With SCI,
Ujantia, Chokoria
Cox's Bazar dist.
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1. Mr. S.J. Chander.
Community Medicines,
St. Martha's Hospital
:
20 Ms Beatrice Limpens
Nurse/Mid—wives
3.
Gonoshasthaya Kendra(GK)
Cox's Bazar area,
:
Mr A, Anand Kumar
Community Health Cell
1. Dr. Sanjiv Lewin
St. Johns' Hospital
2, Ms Mohini
Nurse/Midwives
St. Martha's Hospital
Voluntary Health Services
Society (VHSS)
:
1 o Dr, Shirdi Prasad Tekur
Community Health Cell
^andw4-jr-&-Hat-iya^(4)
2. Dr. Anne Marie Rego
St. Martha's Hospital
With SCI, Char Fession
( Bhola district )
1
Mr Laksman Wijkoon
SCI Sri Lanka
Beatrice Limpens
will be joining the team
later if her services la
required in Char Fession area
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Travel Note :
Dhaka - Chittagong
is well connected by bus and train ( inter-city )
approximate travel time is 6 hours. Fare Taka 181o00
Chittagong - Chokoria and Cox’s Bazar by Chair Coaches ( 5 hours to
Chokoria and 5 hours to Cox’s Bazar).
Ujantia, a remote areas of Magnama Union under Chokoria Upazila
in Cox’s Bazar district is connected by road ( rural muddy road )
2-3 hours by walking from Pekua bridge or 2 hours by engine fitted
country boat. It is also linked by river transport ( 4 hours by
trawler boat depending on high or low tides or else 5 hours boat
journey from Cox’s Bazar ( Depart 6:00 a.mo and arrival at 11:00 a.mo)
everydayo
Important contact persons in SCI-Bangladesh :
1 o Mr Mohammed Ataur Rahman, International Vice-President of SCI &
Director, Gono Unnayan Prochesta
4/5 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207, Tel: 324925, 527509(H)
2. Mrs Sultana Rahman, President, SCI-Bangladesh
4/5 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207 Tel: 324925, 514529, 527509(H)
3. Mr M Fakhrul Hussain, Operative Director, SCI
5/5 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207 Tel: 315623
4.
Mr Md. Emddd Moslem, Asian Field Coordinator
5/5 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207 Tel: 315 623
5.
Mr M Shafiqur Rahman,Mahfuz, Asstto National Secretary of SCI &
Programme Coordinator, Shapla Neer ( a Japanese Charity )
4/5 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207 Tel: 315550, 327509(H)
6.
Mian Akbar Hussein, Coordinator, Emergency Relief Operations,SCI
1/8 Taj Mahalx Road (1st.floor), Mohammadpur, Dhaka 1207
Tel: 313623
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Pijojoct Title
: Emergency Cyclone Roliof Operation
Name of the Organization
: Voluntary Health Sorvives Society(VHSS)
Address
: 273, Baitul Aman Housing Society .Sood No.1
Adnbar, Shyamuli, Dhaka,
PA
SlTlsv -
Contact Person; Director,
Short Description of VHSS:
L’he Voluntary Health Services Society (VHSS) is a
Coordinating and support service aeency for organizations active in health work
through, out Bangladesh, VHSS provides support to agencies
serose
the board*
loveramont, Non-Govemment, Local, National and International . It was established
in 1978 to co-ordinate the
'f forts of service providing agencies with 48 members
agencies. Now VHSS has 200 Cull member agencies and more than another 300 affiliated
members all over the whole country. The ability of VHSS to respons with alacrity
co situations of local or Mtional disaster is now firmly established . Having a
□articular awareness of the many honlth issues relevant in times of calamity*
■coupled with a nationwide 'it twerk of member and afflliatod agencies, the
contribution of VHSS in tri isphere has nroved to be extremely far-reaching
&
widespread. Assistance war',
includes tior.h relief in times of major flood fit cyclone
.and the iesign fit productn.--
>; health education materials specific to disasters.
tp j’.:ch omer---.
.-.-'lief and rehabilitation programme only to support
VHSS
c
and meet the demand of it- no ,w and affiliates..
Introduction;
On April (29.4,9i) the severe cyclone and tidal wave which struck the costoT
areas of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Noakhali, Bhola, Chorfosshion, Sondives,
P,itunkh.il i, Jholokhati, Borguna left those places totally devastated. According
to report of BSS the official death toll till 4th Hay 1991 stands at 1,25~,200
and hundreds of thousands .-iholtcrless without food, clothing .and safe drinking
water. Govt, of tho People'a Republic of Bangladesh .sought help from NGOs, VHSS
in this respect has received some modicinos and cash from Kumudini Welfare Trust
fit NATAB to provide emergency food and .nodicino supply to affected member agency
and affiliates and to whoever is sending roliof team from Dhaka to these areas. .
VHSS from its previous stack of ORS and WPT has already distributed a mentionable
amount. This is not sufficient enough to face emergency. We noed further emergency
food, medicine support for qjffoctod member and affiliated members agencies for
for distribution among tho victims of the calamity.
/ Proposed! Operation
VHSS foals .that-the. primo area of concern
lh
i.n save r-ho remaining lives
by providing emergency relief.
-Emergency of food- supply
-Provide cloths.
-Prevent the diarrhoeal ej^touic and arrange treatment to chose who aro
affected^
The relief, programme
A relief conn it tee will bo formed chairod by Chairman or Treasurer of VHSS
Executive Conaittee (according to VHSS constitution) comprising the uiembers
of VHSS and other NGOs request who .ire working in the above mentioned
irons.
Director VHSS will be tho inombor Secretary,
This Coma ittee will allooaio resource among tho .aauocr agencies .and .□.-•-)b»»r
agencies will distribute tho coixiodiLz.o.-- among the
al victims will; •-he
consultation with the local ndninistrut
Documentation and' followup? Every itom of .iid i.o. cash or coamodity allocated
by the VHSS-relief
r.tnn will be recorded in Register;. Every recipient
partner agencies will also Icoep records of benoficiarie» and mode of rolief in
standard, format devised by VHSS finance department. The cosh/donation received
by VHSS be kopt in a separate account and will be audited after a stipulated
period fixed by tho members of tho relief coaxulttoe.
Tfis-danor agencies and tho rolatod ministry, department, bureau will bo kept
informed of progross and a audited and narrative report will bo submitted to
the agencies.
Proponed funding roquiroinont
Particular
Amount
A. PrtgrnMK
1,
Rice & Rico Product/wheat
® 50/per day/f tidily for
10,000 family x 15 days
■ ■ 2^ -Cloths
• O
150/por family x 10,000
"3.
Medicine
''® 60/per family x 10,000
75,00,000.00
15,00,000.00
6 ,.00,00u.00
B. ■ Procurement & Din tributijjn 'Cost
1, Procurement A ui i tri butt on
stationery, lee I. transport,
fuel, Driver S. officers p-r tlioxi
4,30,Jus.,->0
'1333WB*a-r S 3 U 3
reporting auditing as of
total cost
1,00,30,000.00
N.3. hist of member in Khulna and Chittagong is attached horewittu
, /
list of mhUbhrs in
mispress areas
THROUGH '.VTIQM WE 'YISH TO !|ELP,_________
CHITTAGONG DISTRICT
001
BANOFUL Social Welfare Project
1592, Hunger Bigh ColonyPost: Anin Jute Mills
Chittagong.
002
GHASFUL(MCFP & FW Association)
36, Mas irabad,Hous ing SocietyRoad No,2^ GPO _BQX^l0!)7
Chittagong,
003
Pathorghata Health Dovolopmont Society
Bandlo Road, Qiittagong,
Tel: 22 *1,89.
004
Chittagong Women Working for'
Family Planning i. Welfare
50, K.B. Sattar Road,
Chittagong.
005
p^tima Rural Development &
Health Centre,
Muradpur, P.O. Tomoheiii
U.Z. Mirsori, Dist, Chittagong.
.006 ' *
Chittagong Shishu Hospital
Agrabad (attached to Janibori field)
Chittagong.
NOAWTALI
jISTRICT
001
DANIDA
P.O. BOX 29, Maijdoo lk>urt,
Noakhali.
002
liorium. Health Centro
P.O. Sonapur, Noakhali.
LIST OF MEMBERS IN THE DISTRESS AREAS
mfiQuai ivhqm tta_.wi5H tq help,______
BARISAL DISTRICT
001
Krishi Club (Agriculture Club)
Sbaheed Mohd Mannon Road
P.O, & U.Z.. : Bh on dor io
Dist, Barisal.
00 R
Oriental Institute
P.O; Sagardi, Barisol,
003
Village Doctor's Association
Vill: 4 P.O. Dhandoba
Dist. Barisal.
PATUAfflAfcl d^tmct
DOT
Bangladesh Irnmccn Juba Samity
Nowmala Sardorpara Prathamic ;>hikha
P.O. Nowmala. Banphal, Patunlthali,
oo a.
Village Development Centre
Sonkipura, -’.0. Box No5
Dist,. Patuakhnli 8600,
003-
Sural Development Society
Jemir.Mridhar HateP.O, Barogopoldi, U,Z. Daalitnlna
Patuakhali.
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gjj£i INTERNATIONAL- BANGLADESH
5ife frfe ^5l<WlMci-3tW?‘f
STREET ADDRESS
MAILING ADDRESS
:
SCI IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION COMMITTED TO
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES. FOUNDED IN 1920. SCI IS A MEMBER OF THE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CCIVS)
AND THE YOUTH FORUM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EC). IT ALSO HAS
CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH UNESCO AND THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE. IN
BANGLADESH SCI IS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
(REG NO 213 OF 1962) UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE AGENCIES
(REGD. & CONTROL) ORDINANCE OF 1961 (XLVI-1961) AND FOREIGN DONATIONS
ORDINANCE/RULES 1978 AS AMENDED IN 1982 (REG. NO. R 184).
5/5, IQBAL ROAD, BLOCK-A MOHAMMAD PUR, DHAKA 1207, BANGLADESH. TEL: 313623. TELEX: 642940 ADAB BJ-ATTN: SCI.
G.P.O. BOX 3254, DHAKA-1000, BANGLADESH.
Do.221/ERO/SCI-IMT-22/91
10 June 1991
Mr.Md.i-Iahbubul Alam Liton
Team Leader In-charge
SCI-Esergency Relief Operation
Char Passion
Bhola.
Sub
:
Return of Dr. Sanjiv Lewin to Calcutta,India on 22 June 1991 ♦
To facilitate Dr. Sanjiv Lewin’s return to Calcutta, India on
22 June 1991, please note to arrange his departure from Char
Passion and report to Dhaka on/by 20th June 1991 positively.
His return air ticket by B.B Plight on 22 June 1991 has been
confirmed.
Sd/Mian Akbar Hussein
Coordinator
Emergency Relief Operation
No.221/1(1)/ERO/SCI-IMT-22/91
10 June 1991
c.c to: Dr. Saniiv Lewin. Char Passion, Bhola. In endorsement
to this office Memo.No. 187/ER0/91 dated 3.6.91, he is requested
to report to Dhaka on/by 20 June 1991. His return air ticket by
B.B flight scheduled on 22 June 1991 has been confirmed.
/
Mian Akbar Hussein
Coordinator (ER0)
23S S€RVIC€ CIVIL
gJii INTERNATIONAL-BANGLADESH
sens AN INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION G°“^HRr?
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE ANO INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING THROUq^
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES. FOUNDED IN 1920. SCI IS A MEMBER
HE
COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE (CCN$,
AND THE YOUTH FORUM OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (EC). IT ALSO HAS
CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH UNESCO AND THE COUNCIL OF EURO
BANGLADESH SCI IS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
(REG. NO. 213 OF 1962) UNDER THE VOLUNTARY SOCIAL WELFARE AGt
(REGO & CONTROL) ORDINANCE OF 1961 (XLVI-1961) AND FOREIGN DONA
S
ORDINANCE/RULES 1978 AS AMENDED IN 1982 (REG. NO. R-1 84)
STREET ADDRESS
MAILING ADDRESS
;
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G.P.O. BOX 3254, DHAKA-1000, BANGLADESH.
May 31, 1991
178/ER0/91
The Director,
The VHSS Voluntary Health Services Society,
Dhaka-1207.
Dear Firiend,
This refers to our discussions on deputation of 2 ( two) medical
personnel from the SCI International Medical Team for partaking in the
ongoing emegency cyclone medical care among the needy destitudes.
You will be glad to know that the following medical personnel are
being placed at your disposal for utilising their services in greater
Chittagong district s
1.Dr. Sanjiv Lewin ; and,
■
2.Dr. Anne Marie Rego.
2. These two dotors will be pleased to join and help you carry out
ongoing medicare services as warranted by the nature and needs under
the plan of operation for cyclone victims in the greater Chittagong
district. They will work under programme for 20 days including 2 days
leave and one-day's get-together with other 5 medical personnel
under ongoing programmes undertaken by GK ( 2 medical personnel) and
SCI-Bangladesh ( 3 medical personnel) in the same areas of greater
Chittagong district for sharing their field r ",
experiences among
them ( if possible with the representatives of GK. VHSS and SCI-Bangladesh).All of the aforementioned personnel of the SCI International
Medical Team must return to Dhakaby/on June20, 1991 positively to
facilitate their retun to Calcutta on June 22,1991.
3. We shall be obliged in the event VHSS would kindly arrange place of
spending their 2-days holiday and 1-day's venue for sharing field
field experiences. In this deliberation, SCI-Bangladesh likes to send
two representatives.Kindly let us know the feasibility of our request.
Thanking you in anticipation
of your continuing cooperation
hitherto.
V ‘‘AOU tus-tor nusem Jg
Coordinator Cyclone Emergency Relief,
CC.t Lt. Dr. Sanjiv Lewin
2. Dr. Anne Marie Rego
3. SCI-B.
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