Published 17 August 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3376
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3376

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Full impact in Taiwan of typhoon is yet to emerge

Jane Parry1, Kelly Her2

1 Hong Kong, 2 Taipei

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

The full effects of typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan on Saturday 7 August, are only now beginning to emerge. The death toll as at 17 August was 124, but this did not include the hundreds of villagers feared buried under a mudslide that hit the village of Hsiaolin in Kaohsiung county in the south of the country.

The Taiwanese government has been widely criticised domestically for reacting too slowly to the disaster. It has also been accused of declining help from overseas, leaving thousands of people stranded in remote mountainous villages without food for more than a week. President Ma Ying-jeou publicly apologised twice for the delay and denied that his government had refused outside help.

More than 35 000 people had been evacuated from the affected area by 16 August, said Mao Chi-kuo, minister of transportation and communications and commander of the Central Emergency Operations Centre. Speaking at a . . . [Full text of this article]


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