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CMAT Assessment team in Dhaka, Bangladesh

2007 - Bangladesh Floods, Deployments

Initial assessment team David Deines and Valerie Rzepka in a Bengali village.

Tuesday August 28, 2007 – Gopalganj, Bangladesh – After meetings with local partner Fazlullah Foundation, two areas were selected to target for medical relief: Gopalganj and Gaibandha – both are in some of the most flood affected areas in Bangladesh. A medical clinic will be established along with two other networking NGOs including the Bangladesh Auxiliary Services for Social Advancement (BASSA) in Gopalganj and Udoyan Savolombi Shangstha (USS) in Gaibandha. Both organizations have been operating for more than 20 years and are fully capable with deployment activities.

CMAT deploys primary medical team to Bangladesh

2007 - Bangladesh Floods, Deployments

Displaced villages set up temporary camps on higher ground.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 – BRANTFORD, CANADA – CMAT announced today that a Canadian four-member team consisting of advanced care paramedics and a nurse practitioner have departed for Bangladesh yesterday evening.

CMAT Assessment team in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Medical facilities overwhelmed

2007 - Bangladesh Floods, Deployments

View from the air as CMAT assessment team flies into Dhaka (August 18, 2007)

Monday August 20, 2007 – DHAKA, BANGLADESH: CMAT’s two-member initial assessment team arrived in Dhaka on August 18 and have issued their initial situation report. According to the assessment team, Dhaka-based International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research – Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has become the main treatment ‘hospital’ where flood victims suffering from water-borne illness and diarhea are being treated.

CMAT to send emergency assessment team to Bangladesh

2007 - Bangladesh Floods, Deployments

August 3, 2007: Flood-affected people of their homes and move to higher grounds yesterday as the flood situation in the district worsens.

Sunday, August 12, 2007 – BRANTFORD, CANADA – CMAT will deploy a 2-member assessment team to meet its local partner in Dhaka this week. As part of their initial 3-4 day assessment they will make a determination as to whether the Canadian Medical Assistance Team (CMAT) field hospital will be deployed or not.

CMAT monitoring major flooding in South Asia

2007 - Bangladesh Floods, Deployments

Hundreds of villages have been submerged across the region that stretch along the southern edge of the Himalayas. People are taking refuge wherever they can.

Monday, August 6, 2007 – CMAT is monitoring the situation in Bangladesh and northern India where major flooding from monsoon rains have killed up to 1,200 persons and displaced more than 20 million. The threat of water-borne diseases is rapidly rising and millions of people are homeless or cut off in their villages because of the heavy monsoon rains and flooding.