Other thread quickly devolved into bickering.
The media is providing precious little information on the survivors in Japan. The quake survivors are being ignored by MSM. Does anyone have any current information to share?
"A hospital in Tagajo was cleaning off muddy medicine and trying to keep its 90 patients alive without water or electricity. A large generator and two portable toilets were delivered by the Japanese military.
“We’ve been told we’ll get medicine sometime next week,” said Daisuke Toraiwa, a physical therapist at the hospital.
At a school turned shelter in the same city, a group of older men and women sat in the large drafty gym, warmed only by a single kerosene heater. A few ointment tubes, bandages and boxes of aspirin and stomach and cold medicines were stacked on a nearby table.
“It’s freezing, there are people who are sick and injured,” Keiko Endo, a 58-year-old nurse at the shelter, said.
Doctors Without Borders, the international assistance group, has seen cases of hypothermia, serious dehydration and respiratory diseases in some shelters, said Eric Ouannes, general director of the group’s Japan affiliate. The tsunami washed away many people’s medications"
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