ေနာက္ထပ္ ဆိုင္ကလုန္း တစ္ခု ဗမာျပည္ထဲမွာ စတင္ျဖစ္ေပၚေနၿပီလို႔ ကုလသမဂၢက အခုဘဲ သတိေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အေနာက္ေတာင္ဘက္မွာ စတင္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေပၚေနၿပီလို႔ သိရတယ္။ အဲဒီ အပူပိုင္း ဆိုင္ကလုန္းဟာ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၂၄ နာရီအတြင္းမွာ ႀကီးထြားလာႏုိင္တယ္လို႔ ႐ိုက္တာသတင္းမွာေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
Aid trickles in as Myanmar faces new cyclone worries
YANGON (Reuters) - The 1.5 million people left destitute by Myanmar's devastating cyclone were increasingly desperate on Wednesday, as foreign aid remained at a trickle and overstretched aid workers struggled to reach hard-hit areas.
ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီမုန္တိုင္းဟာ အင္အားအသင့္အတင့္လား၊ အင္အားျပင္မလားဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ ႀကိဳတင္ခန္႔မွန္းလို႔မရေသး ဘူးလို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ အကူအညီေပးေရးအတြက္ရဲက ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္႐ွိသူက ေျပာပါတယ္။
သူမက “ဒီသတင္းက ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ကမၻာေနာက္ထပ္ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္းသည္ မၾကာမီတြင္ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းဆီ ၀င္ေရာက္လာႏုိင္သည္ဟု ကုလသမဂၢက သတိေပးသည္။
ဟာ၀ုိင္အီတြင္ အေျခစုိက္ေသာ တုိက္ဖြန္မုန္တုိင္း သတိေပးဌာန၏ ၾကိဳတင္သတိေပးခ်က္ အရ ၂၄ နာရီအတြင္း အားေကာင္းလာဖြယ္ ရွိေသာ အဆိုပါဆုိင္ကလုန္းသည္ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းဆီ ဦးတည္ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။
ယခုလ (၃) ရက္ေန႔က လူသိန္းခ်ီေသဆံုးၿပီး သန္းခ်ီ အိုးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရ ေဒသတြင္ အမ်ားစုသည္ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ အမိုးအကာေအာက္ မေရာက္ေသးသည့္အခ်ိန္တြင္ ေနာက္ထပ္ မုန္တုိင္း၀င္ေရာက္မည့္ သတိေပးခ်က္ထြက္ေပၚလာျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း လက္ပြတၱာမွ အမည္မေဖာ္လုိေသာ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းတဦး၏ အဆုိအရ ယခုအခါ ေဒသတြင္း၌ လူနာမ်ားတုိးလာေနၿပီး ေဆး၀ါးမလံုေလာက္မႈမ်ား ၾကံဳေနရသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ေလာေလာဆယ္တြယ္ ေဒသတြင္း၌ ကေလးငယ္မ်ား ၀မ္းေရာဂါ စတင္ျဖစ္ပြားေနၿပီး ေဆး၀ါးမ်ား အေရာက္မေစာလ်င္ ေနာက္ထပ္ကူးစက္ေရာဂါမ်ားျဖစ္ပြားႏုိင္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။
လူနာက တုိးလာၿပီးေဆး၀ါးက မလံုေလာက္သျဖင့္ လက္ပြတၱာတြင္ ဆရာ၀န္ႏွင့္ သူနာျပဳမ်ားသည္ လူနာမ်ားအတြက္ မ်က္ရည္က်ေနၾကသည္ဟု အဆိုပါ က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းက ေျပာသည္။
ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႔မ်ားက အေရးေပၚ အကူအညီလိုအပ္သူ လူတသန္းအနက္ (၃) ပံု (၂) ပံုသည္ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ အကူအညီမရၾကေသးဟု ေျပာသည္။
နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ၾကိဳတင္သတိေပးမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ ပ်က္ကြက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ အျပစ္တင္ခံခဲ့ရေသာ စစ္အစိုးရသည္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး အကူအညီမ်ားကို လမ္းဖြင့္မေပးသျဖင္ ့ ေ၀ဖန္ခံေနရသည္။
့ မိုးေလ၀သ႒ာနရဲ႕ ႒ာနခြဲတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ့ တုိင္ဖုန္းသတိေပးေရးစင္တာ (JTWC) က လာတာလို႕” ေျပာပါတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ထိုထုတ္ၿပန္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ “ယခုအခ်ိန္မွာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕
အေနာက္ေတာင္ဘက္ရဲ႕ အေနာက္ပိုင္းကေန မိုင္ ၃၀ အကြာေရျပင္မွာ မုန္တိုင္းစတင္ေနပါၿပီ” လို႔ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
Reports a tropical depression was swirling southwest of Yangon and a U.S. advisory that it could develop into a cyclone in the next 24 hours sparked concerns of a new tragedy following the early May storm that left up to 100,000 people dead or missing in the Irrawaddy delta.
"It's terrible. This is always another worry when you have a major disaster, that you have further hazards affecting people," Amanda Pitt, spokeswoman for the UN's humanitarian affairs office, told a news conference in Bangkok.
However, the U.S. advisory said conditions did not yet merit a full cyclone warning, while Tropical Storm Risk (http://tsr.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/), which offers information on tropical storms for the insurance industry, among others, did not show tropical cyclone activity as of 0843 GMT.
Meanwhile, in a gesture to critics who say outside aid is critical, Myanmar's reclusive military rulers invited 160 personnel from neighboring Bangladesh, China, India and Thailand to assist in delayed and sometimes chaotic relief efforts.
But that is a fraction of the thousands of foreign aid workers needed for a "tsunami-style" international aid operation.
"It's just awful. People are in just desperate need, begging as vehicles go past," Gordon Bacon, an emergency coordinator for the International Rescue Committee, told Reuters from Yangon.
Thailand's prime minister flew to Myanmar's main city of Yangon on Wednesday to try to persuade Prime Minister Thein Sein to let more foreign experts into the pulverized areas.
Samak Sundaravej is hoping for more luck than United Nations and Western officials, whose efforts have had little success.
AID DIVERTED?
Some have suggested food and other urgent supplies may have been diverted by Myanmar's ruling junta rather than going straight to helpless victims, many homeless and some barefoot.
But a World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman in Bangkok said of high-energy food it had sent: "We collected the biscuits at the (Yangon) airport and they remain in our possession."
In any case, experts said the relief effort -- further complicated by heavy rains and the threat of a possible second cyclone -- is only delivering a tenth of the supplies needed.
The international community has flown in tonnes of medicine, food and shelter materials, but getting it to the low-lying delta area has been complicated by poor equipment, bad weather and government intransigence.
Heavy rains have pelted the region, slowing transportation of aid by land and adding to the misery of tens of thousands of refugees packed into monasteries, schools and pagodas.
Lacking food, water and sanitation, survivors of Cyclone Nargis face the threat of killer diseases such as cholera and in some areas are waiting in vain for help to arrive.
"If these people aren't reached and aid got to them quickly, and shelter and toilet facilities, disease will break out," the International Rescue Committee's Bacon said.
The WFP said it was looking for helicopters to airlift rice and high-energy biscuits down to the delta and also boats to reach isolated communities along the Irrawaddy river.
It said it had provided food to 50,000 people and aimed to reach 750,000 over the next six months.
Operations in Myanmar are a shadow of the massive international relief operation kick started just days after the 2004 Asian tsunami.
The United States alone deployed thousands of its military and more than a dozen ships in the Indian Ocean, and many other countries provided major help.
But Myanmar's junta has made it clear it does not want Westerners distributing aid.
Foreign experts in sanitation, nutrition and medicine have either been prevented from entering the country formerly known as Burma or are restricted to Yangon.
Armed police sent back foreigners who attempted to pass through checkpoints surrounding the former capital.
(Additional reporting by Darren Schuettler and Nopporn Wong-Anan in BANGKOK)
(Writing by Carmel Crimmins and Jerry Norton; Editing by Valerie Lee)
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