FED:Aust doctors to treat flood victims

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2010
FED:Aust doctors to treat flood victims

An Australian doctor in Pakistan says the plight of the country's desperate flood victims
is motivating the 70 Australian medical staff in the disaster area to help as many as
they can.

Dr SIMON MCLAUGHLIN says the victims are hungry .. sick and camping on the side of the road.

But he says the Australian medical .. aid and defence staff can treat many for their
illnesses .. that include respiratory diseases .. scabies .. diarrhoea and malaria.

The Kot Addu health care centre is staffed by 180 Australians and run by Defence and
AusAID .. where devastating floods hit the region almost a month ago .. displacing 30-thousand
in the area alone.

Floods have affected about 20 million in the country.

AAP RTV ca/wz/af

KEYWORD: PAKISTAN HEALTH AUST (CANBERRA)

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