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Originally Posted by Kiwideus
My sister is a nurse and she was ready to leave to go there to work and help out but they told her that they only needed forensics for DNA  I wondered why they would turn down any help - after all, not everyone is dead, but a lot are injured and they would need all the help they can get! |
Kellye, a lot of doctors from our county hospitals were also prepared to go, but were told that they would be of more use here, as tourists are being evacuated by the military and brought back here for treatment. I suppose that means the hospitals there can handle the injured locals. They do need pathologists, though, and possibly epidemiologists. Apparently the search and rescue operations will be halted today, because there's almost no hope of finding more survivors. One plus point is that the U.S. Navy is helicoptering aid into Aceh province in Indonesia now.
People here whose relatives are missing have been told to turn over tootbrushes and the like, or at least dental records, along with missing persons reports to the local police, who in turn send the material on to the BKA (German equivalent of the FBI). There are international teams of pathologists in the crisis region who are trying to identify the dead using DNA, because the bodies are so decomposed and or mutilated that visual identification is no longer possible.
I'll still be here, and I do appreciate the sentiments expressed here.
