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MERCY Malaysia Assessment Team For Quake-Hit Chile
KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 (Bernama) -- Volunteer relief organisation Mercy Malaysia will deploy a two-member team to Santiago, Chile, tomorrow to conduct on-the-ground assessment to determine the humanitarian needs within the region affected by a recent earthquake.
Mercy Malaysia president Dr Ahmad Faizal Perdaus said the team, made up of its Head of Relief Operations Dr Paul Mettler and Executive Council member Dr Heng Aik Cheng, would ascertain the level of devastation, destroyed infrastructure and the health needs of the quake-affected people.
"Our team will revert on how Mercy Malaysia can best assist the emergency response on the ground there," he said in a statement today.
Dr Ahmad Faizal said that according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), immediate priorities in Chile continued to be on search and rescue, medical services, shelter, food and water, transport, communications and the restoration of basic services.
"We have been constantly updated by our local contact in Chile and, with his assistance, our team will be able to see how we can best help in the most cost-effective manner," he added.
He said people who wanted to donate to the Chile Relief Fund could do so through Maybank (account number 5621-7950-4126) or CIMB Bank (account number 1424-000-6561053).
Source: BERNAMA
MERCY Malaysia continued its partnership with The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, and ran 11 mobile clinics in Klang to offer primary healthcare to the stateless as well as marginalized communities.
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