Hawaii-based group only U.S. medical mission to Myanmar
Dr. Carl Lum, leader of Aloha Medical Mission’s July aid visit to Myanmar, is surrounded with school children in Sedon.
Aloha Medical Mission photo via AP
HONOLULU — The leader of the only U.S. medical team to enter Myanmar since a cyclone struck two months ago said Monday he saw a surprising number of replanted rice paddies and more reconstruction than he expected. Dr. Carl Lum spoke a day after returning from a two-week trip to the Irrawaddy delta with 25 doctors and nurses of the Honolulu-based Aloha Medical Mission. ‘‘I was surprised to see how much recovery they had so far. People were rebuilding their damaged homes . . . putting up new roofs,’’ Lum said. ‘‘The rice paddies were really green as far as you can see.’’ Even so, Lum said it was clear many homes, schools and shops needed to be rebuilt. In the town of Kyeingchangi, where only 700 survived out of a population of 4,000, residents used blue tarp to graft makeshift roofs and walls onto their wooden homes. Traveling on an old ferry converted into a floating clinic, Lum saw towns that were only partially destroyed and others that were almost completely ruined. He said
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