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Durant Fellowship Director Laurence J. Ronan, MD and a team of physicians, psychiatrists and nurses from the Massachusetts General Hospital, are aboard the USNS hospital ship Mercy anchored just off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Sponsored by Project Hope, they are treating victims of the December tsunami, many of them children whose parents drowned when the giant wave smashed into the city of Banda Aceh and nearby coastal communities.
Banda Aceh's hospital was devastated, staff and patients drowned, facilities and equipment damaged or destroyed. The hospital's Indonesian staff's top priority is to immediately rebuild one small wing of the hospital for tuberculosis and pulmonary patients.
The most urgent need is for an x-ray machine, beds, air conditioners and a laboratory. With local labor the hospital wing can be rebuilt and outfitted with new equipment for an estimated $300,000.
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