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  • 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

                  • AMDA Emergency Relief #6: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                    Publication date:2024-01-11
                    Since 2 January, AMDA has been carrying out relief work in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Japan’s western coast that was heavily devastated by the magnitude 7.6 earthquake. 

                    On 8 January, AMDA’s second relief team (one doctor and one nurse) started working at Wajima Junior High School, a local evacuation shelter that has currently been AMDA’s main activity site. 

                    Upon arrival, the team diagnosed 63 evacuees as part of their medical relief. As the work continued the next day, cases such as diarrhea and vomiting, as well as COVID-19 infections were taken care of by the team. The AMDA nurse made it a point to keep the shelter clean, especially the makeshift toilets that could cause hygienic problems.

                    • AMDA Emergency Relief #5: The Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan

                      Publication date:2024-01-09
                      On the morning of 8 January, AMDA dispatched the third relief team to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, which was devastated by the magnitude 7.6 quake that struck the Noto peninsula on Japan’s western coast. The third team includes Dr. Takushi Sato who was recently appointed as the new head of AMDA Japan.

                      They are expected to join the advance team on 9 January, after procuring relief supplies in the city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture (located next to Ishikawa).

                       
                       
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