Mercy Malaysia repairs Haiyan-damaged hospital

ORMOC: Medical services to people in seven municipalities were disrupted due to heavy damage to the Ormoc District Hospital in this central province caused by typhoon Haiyan.
Mercy Malaysia went to the rescue and helped repair the damage at a cost of RM100,000.
The hospital, which had to suspend medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology, general surgery, and orthopaedics services due to the damages is back in service and the 100-bed hospital is able to cater to some 300 patients daily.
Mercy Malaysia president Datuk Ahmad Faizal Mohd Perdaus said it is heartening to see people setting aside their differences to help each other in the aftermath of the typhoon.
"You would be surprised that in some parts of the world, I am not allowed to listen to your (Christian) hymns, which is absolutely ridiculous.
"At the end of the day we are all the same, and sometimes it takes a disaster like Haiyan to bring people together," he said before handing over a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to the Leyte governor.
The MoA states that basic reparation works at the hospital are completed and the rest is now in the hands of the hospital and the Leyte Provincial Government.
Leyte governor Leopoldo Dominico L. Petilla said the island lost 2,700 of its inhabitants during the disaster, but they wasted no time in picking themselves up and going on with their daily lives.
"I remember seeing an ambulance without its headlights, sirens, and even bumpers, rushing patients to the hospital," he said, adding that he was happy people are back on their feet.
Mercy Malaysia is one of the first humanitarian agencies to arrive at the hospital following the typhoon Haiyan and deploy an emergency response unit to help cope with the lack of manpower as most doctors had left to tend to their own families.