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  • AMDA Emergency Relief #40: Crisis in Ukraine

    Publication date:2024-03-05

    Activity overview as of March 2024

    Ever since the humanitarian crisis struck Ukraine in late February 2022, people

    • AMDA Haiti’s effort to support IDPs

      Publication date:2024-02-22

      Between 19 and 22 October 2023, AMDA Haiti provided humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. 

       

      Due to escalating gang violence (including murder and arson) triggered by the nation’s recent political and economic instability, many residents have been fleeing their homes to take refuge in evacuation camps set up in the capital. The Haiti chapter has supported the evacuees by organizing medical relief and donating necessities such as medical supplies

      • AMDA Emergency Relief #14: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

        Publication date:2024-02-05
        As of 3 February, a total of 387 people have been taking refuge at Wajima Junior High School, the biggest evacuation center in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, where AMDA’s relief team has been carrying out medical relief. 

        The school used to house approximately 800 people during the peak period. AMDA has sent 45 relief workers to the school thus far, and took care of well over 600 patients in total. 

        On the afternoon of 1 February, both the evacuees and aid

        • AMDA Emergency Relief #13: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

          Publication date:2024-01-31
          On 29 January, AMDA held a press conference to provide an update on the ongoing relief efforts in response to the Noto peninsula earthquake at Okayama International Center near AMDA Headquarters in Okayama, Japan.

          Dr. Takushi Sato, the head of AMDA Japan, and coordinator Akira Onishi, AMDA’s emergency relief chief, explained the current situation in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. Elaborating on AMDA’s relief work that began on 2 January, the two stressed the importance of continued assistance based on the assumption that a significant amount of time

          • AMDA Emergency Relief #12: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

            Publication date:2024-01-25
            On 23 January, AMDA’s eighth relief team joined the advance team at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. 

            An additional medical team from Suwa Central Hospital (AMDA’s disaster-relief partner) also joined forces with the AMDA team on the same day.

            Now that three weeks have passed since the earthquake struck, the number of evacuees has dropped to 456 people in total at the shelter, which is 100 less than that of the peak

            • AMDA Emergency Relief #11: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

              Publication date:2024-01-23
              On the morning of 22 January, AMDA’s eighth relief team left for the quake-hit city of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture. 

              The eighth team is made up of two groups of aid workers. This means the personnel from AMDA Headquarters in Okayama (one doctor, one nurse, and one coordinator) will later be joined by two nurses in Kanazawa, Ishikawa’s prefectural capital, before arriving in Wajima the next day.

              As of 21 January, a total of 457 people have been taking shelter at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter where AMDA has been carrying out relief work for the past few weeks.

              • AMDA Emergency Relief #10: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                Publication date:2024-01-20

                As of 19 January, AMDA’s team of 10 aid workers has been providing assistance to the evacuees at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. 

                The number of people who have been evacuated at the shelter has decreased to 467 from what used to be around 560 in the past few days.

                • AMDA Emergency Relief #9: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                  Publication date:2024-01-15
                  On 12 January, AMDA conducted the assessment to determine the evacuees that urgently required cardboard beds at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. A pair of doctor and pharmacist spent 12 hours going around the shelter to grasp who needed them, and managed to cover about 2/3 of the three-story school building. Plans are also underway to provide cardboard beds to every single evacuee in the course of time.

                  • AMDA Emergency Relief #8: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                    Publication date:2024-01-13
                    As of 12 January, AMDA’s two doctors, one nurse, one pharmacist, and two coordinators have been providing medical assistance at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter in the quake-hit city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. 

                    From what used to be 566 people on the previous day, the number of evacuees at the school has decreased to around 550. 21 out of the 35 patients the team saw that day were suffering from infections. The AMDA team has been keeping the medical records of

                    • AMDA Emergency Relief #7: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                      Publication date:2024-01-12
                      On the afternoon of 9 January, after arriving at Wajima Junior High School, an evacuation shelter in quake-hit Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, AMDA’s third relief team began providing medical assistance. Comprising one doctor, one nurse, and one pharmacist, the team took care of 36 patients in total.

                      As of 10 January, 566 people have been evacuated at the school, which is 78 more than the previous day. 

                      With three doctors, two nurses, one pharmacist, and three

                       
                       
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