Helping Earthquake Survivors in Myanmar

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Samaritan’s Purse is providing desperately needed medical care, water, and shelter in Jesus’ Name.

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  • To help Myanmar’s earthquake victims, Samaritan’s Purse set up in the capital of Naypyidaw a 60-bed Emergency Field Hospital. Our doctors and nurses have treated over 2,500 patients and performed over 200 surgeries.
  • Six filtration units have been delivered to supply over 20,000 people with three gallons of fresh water a day.
  • Over 1,500 kits containing temporary shelter material and other necessities have been distributed to families in Myanmar.

Samaritan’s Purse deployed our Disaster Assistance Response Team immediately after a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, killing more than 3,500 people and injuring thousands of others.

Our DC-8 aircraft and a 747 cargo plane delivered over 100 tons of relief supplies, including water filtration units, emergency shelter material, and an Emergency Field Hospital. This multi-tent medical facility houses an emergency room, 60 patient beds, a pharmacy, laboratory, and two operating rooms to assist the local healthcare system in the capital of Naypyidaw. Their treatment centers are currently overrun with earthquake-related cases. Our doctors and nurses are hard at work performing surgeries on broken bones and other urgent orthopedic cases as dozens of victims await their care.

“We want every patient to know that God loves them and they are not alone. Please pray for everyone affected and for our Disaster Assistance Response Team as they serve those who are hurting in Jesus’ Name.”

-Franklin Graham, President, Samaritan’s Purse

“We are thankful that Samaritan’s Purse is here,” said Dr. Saw of a 1,000-bed Naypyidaw hospital that has only been able to operate at 20 percent its capacity since the earthquake. With its water sources contaminated after the seismic event, patients and their family members were left thirsty. But Saw said, “We know that your water is good.” Thanks to the new Samaritan’s Purse filtration unit at this location, people are now filling large jugs with precious fresh water.

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Families of patients fill bottles with refreshing clean water at the Samaritan’s Purse water point set up at the local hospital. Samaritan’s Purse has distributed hundreds of non-food item kits to families in Myanmar. Dr. Nottebrock who specializes in emergency and trauma care consults with a colleague at the bedside of a patient. A Samaritan’s Purse medical staff member tenderly cares for one of the earthquake patients at the Emergency Field Hospital. A Samaritan’s Purse doctor checks the vision of an earthquake survivor. Our team starts each day in Myanmar in prayer. Components of the Emergency Field Hospital were loaded onto our DC-8 aircraft in Calgary to be sent to Myanmar. A Samaritan’s Purse staffer checks the vitals of a recent amputation patient named U Bo Lay. The earthquake sadly claimed his leg after a tall pillar fell on it. One of our first patients, Su Su Hlaing, is a mother of two who lost her arm when her apartment building crumbled on top of her. She is now recovering well after surgery. Our doctors began operating on patients in a temporary facility even before the Emergency Field Hospital was assembled. Our DC-8 combi-aircraft brought first planeload of personnel and supplies to Myanmar. A Samaritan’s Purse medical professional looks for a vein in Su Su Hlaing, a recent amputation patient. The Disaster Assistance Response Team works to set up the Emergency Field Hospital.

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