Arab News: Many people who suffered serious injuries when a super typhoon devastated the central Philippines have had to wait nearly a month for treatment, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.“With some of the more remote areas now accessible, we’re... seeing a second wave of people reaching hospitals with injuries,” WHO’s Philippines representative, Julie Hall, said in a statement nearly four weeks after the disaster.
Super Typhoon Haiyan destroyed some local hospitals, debris blocking access to many of those still working, when it slashed across the central islands on November 8, requiring the air evacuation of some of the injured to Manila and other cities.
The government’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council now lists 26,233 people injured, which the WHO Western Pacific in Manila said were the same figures it is using. The official figure had stood at just 12,500 in mid-November, a week after the typhoon swept out of the region....
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