Tsunami Disaster in North Sumatra: How You Can Help
 
As a member of Malaysian Orthopaedic Association, how can you help?
 
Several NGOs have invited MOA to work together in helping the victims in the North Sumatra.

As a professional body, we can only encourage our members to get involved voluntarily.

With the help of the NGOs, MOA tsunami medical relief commit managed to identify several areas that we may contribute effectively.

- Providing orthopaedic input in establishing the services of the affected hospitals.
  - Hospital Zainal Abidin (Dr Azharuddin)
- Hospital Kesdam (Dr Yushar Harun)

- Providing Orthopaedic consultation and treatment for field medical units :
  - Hospital Bulan Sabit Merah Indonesia BSMI (Dr Wahid)
- Malaysian Army Hospital (Dr Zakaria)

- Visiting and assisting in Dutch Mobile Orthopaedic Hospital (Mr Ejgil)
 
- Sourcing donations for instruments and implants from orthopaedic organizations for these hospitals
- Field trips to villages for general medical consultation and treatment.
 
 
Quarters of Global Peace Mission (GPM), one of the NGOs.
Evening clinic from the house of a villager
 
Headquarter of Mercy Malaysia in Banda Aceh
Volunteers ready to go for a field trip
 
External fixation with bone / dental cement as the body frame
External fixator produced in Malaysia
 
Donation of medical supplies to the local medical set-ups
 
 
We would like to encourage MOA members to consider spending between 10 to 13 days in Banda Aceh to help the people and orphans who are torn from their families and displaced form their homes.
 
We would also like to express our gratitude to the NGOs that has contributed tremendously to the course and helped to arrange for our activities in Banda Aceh.

For further information, please contact our secretariat Ms Kong or our humanitarian service coordinator Prof Sharaf Ibrahim.
 
 
Prepared by
Dr Saw Aik, Dr Hyzan and Dr Sharaf Ibrahim
MOA Tsunami Medical Relief Committee