Cyclone Nargis - field report from the delta

I just got an updated report from Than Win, 16th May, a part of which I would like to share with you to give an idea of the situation in the delta - we try not to dramatised or trivialised the situation but report what we see and compare it with other information we have elsewhere to get as accurate picture of the situation as we can - then we share this with you and you form your own opinion and take action as logically and sympathetically as possible.

"Around 1300 hours I see my brother Aung Aung who came back to (Yangon) see the eye specialist for his infected eyes. He went back to frontline Phyar Pone the same evening, after seeing the doctors. He explained the situation as people on delta area are very much resilience and no infectious diseases has been indicated so far. They saw about sixty corpses floating in the river and asked help from monks to burry those corpses. They arrived a village were 400 over people used to live but now populated with twenty peoples staying as commune and on the verge of running out of food supply, Aung Aung and group managed to help them.
He is strongly against un-organized donations as it is encouraging the people to become lazy. He is trying to support for planting of paddy back in this area. The specialists OG and Cardiologist as well as GP doctors has nothing to do as they could not find the sick people in the villages ( almost all are healthy except those died in the storm )."