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GlobalMedic responds to the China earthquake
Rahul Singh
Website: http://www.dmgf.org
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In response to the earthquake that rocked the Sichuan Province of China earlier this month, GlobalMedic is deploying a Rapid Response Team to the affected areas near Chengdu . The Chinese government has accepted our aid and we are working closely with them to provide aid to the victims. The confirmed number of dead is 51,151 with an additional 288,431 people injured and 28,328 people missing. The earthquake has resulted in the damaging of 5,000 km pipes, 839 water tanks, and 1,281 water treatment works have been damaged, affecting 10.59 million people across the province. There is an extreme need for clean drinking water in order to stave off water-born diseases and further fatalities.
The GlobalMedic team will be departing tomorrow (May 24th) from Toronto at 1 p.m. They will be operating and donating 20 Trekker Water Purification Units, 1 Nomad (large volume) Water Purification Unit, as well as 5 million Aquatab Water Purification Tablets (one tablet purifies one litre of water).
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