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From Relief To Recovery. The WHO Tsunami
operations
Nature unleashed its fury with unprecedented violence on
the morning of 26
December 2004. What promised to be a pleasant, post-Christmas
Sunday, turned into one of the biggest disasters humankind had ever known. Six countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region
bore the brunt of the tsunami. WHO coordinated global efforts to address
post-disaster health consequences. The relief and
recovery operations that followed have set the benchmark for emergency
preparedness and response in the South-East Asia Region.
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