Cine stars of Burma made a valiant visit to the nargis hit places and helped the needy with clothes foods to the needy.As per the stars version places are stinking with human and animal bodies lay decomposing unattended,a health hazard to environment and no hygenic condition prevails.Places of worship,schools and monastries are all filled with peoples near to the cyclone affectred cities,the aid is trickling down to the victims,the best is provided by the Myanmar red cross society who have helped 2,20,000 with foods, shelters and medicine.

Aid agencies are susceptible becasue the reclusive Myanmar junta is relcutantly taking the aids without the aid agencies workers and their logistic supports,the Country in dire straits amidst natural disaster lacking infrastructure disaster managment is failing every day to reach their people in despair. 

The aid group described the situation worsening from bad to worse and said,"Unless there is a massive and fast infusion of aid, experts and supplies into the hardest-hit areas, there"s going to be a tragedy on an unimaginable scale," said Greg Beck of the International Rescue Committee.

Delta town of Laputta, where 80 percent of homes were destroyed, the authorities were providing just one cup of rice per family per day, a European Commission aid official told media.

The scenes are the same across the delta, where as many as 100,000 people are feared either dead or missing and the number may be doubled if the aid do not reach the affected citizens.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told reporters on Saturday. “The aid is to be directly distributed to the affected, either by the ship’s crew or by French aid organizations.”

According to press reports, a French 22,000-ton amphibious naval craft, Mistral, moored in India, had been loaded with 1,500 tons of rice and medical supplies on Saturday and was sailing to the Irrawaddy delta to distribute the supplies, either through the ship’s crew or using non-governmental staff already on the ground.

Back to delta Reports, water brone disease are on rise  as diarrhea,skin problems have already surfaced, due lack of clean water and  diseases such as jaundice , measles.malaria,typhoid,shall follow. Children, affected with the storm, face grave risks if the condition are not made hygenic and adequate fresh drinking water made available. Hundreds of thousands more were left homeless in the reculsive military-run country, which is ruling since 1962 and restricting foreign media,aid agencies.Country was once the emerging jewel of Asian countries is now one of the impoverish state of globe.  

Aid agency expressing opinion on the aid operation said,"The fact that there are people we still haven"t gotten to is very distressing to all of us. We don"t know how many that is," Tim Costello, president of the aid agency World Vision Australia, said by telephone on Saturday from Rangoon. “The people are all exposed to the elements, and they are very, very vulnerable. It"s a race against time."

A badly hit town of Laputta,which has more than 50 villagees in dilapidated condition, family members were forced to use unhygenic means  at a hospital where logistic supports were nil  with no doctors or supplies visible.

The World Health Organization has reported children suffering from upper respiratory diseases.Myanmar red cross cargo ship loaden with 1000 people food,medical and shelter aid on way from rivers path collided with submerged tree trunk and sunk with total material loss but the crew reached to safe banks.

Four thousand of Kungyangone’s residents have died when the cyclone hit and survivors have been assured by the authorities that the town has enough supplies to feed all. One member of the town’s Union Solidarity and Development Association  said the organization is delivering enough rice to the storm victims, pointing at the sacks of rice in his house. Building materials were being handed out to people to rebuild their demolished homes, he said.Donors of aid are forced to leave the supplies and cash with the security forces stationed in the center of the small town.

Members of the security forces patrol the streets, but none seems interested in the plight of the homeless.Tun Than, 44, supervises the care of more than 800 homeless in a local monastery. He points to three policemen walking through the monastery compound and says: “We don’t need the police. There are no more homes to protect. We just need rice.”

Foreign ministers from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) are likely to meet in Singapore soon to discuss measures to support relief and recovery efforts in cyclone-hit Myanmar, The Straits Times reported Monday. Asean includes Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.

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