JANE LEAVES FOR NIAS - FIELD REPORT BANYAKS

Jane has left on Baranjoie, a 70 ft charter boat with a team of doctors and nurses under the leadership of Dr.Derek Allen from SAI. A team of local doctors arrived this morning from Jakarta arranged by our friend and experienced Padang hand Lynnette Johnson.

Electric Lamb and Sembilan are in the Banyak islands. They have just visited Haloban Village and report as follows:
• The tsunami swept about 500 m into the village engulfingabout 80% of the houses.
• The height of the tsunami was about 1.3 to 1.5m.
• Most people ran to high ground after the earthquake so only one person was injured. Dr Johnson treated him for cuts and abrasions.
• 30 houses were destroyed and about 70 houses damaged but repairable.
• There are about 1,000 people in or around the village. Many have moved to their ladang pondoks to be away from the ocean. They are traumatized and have no rice and only coconuts and garden produce.
• Malaria has broken out with 10 new cases in the past few days.
• Water is not a problem as they can walk a short distance to find wells that have not been filled with salt water.
• The Kepala Desa supervised the distribution of family support kits..... there is more to report on this.... soon