Tsunami Memorial Service

[Angel]

Among many other well wisher of Sri Lankan I have also been invited to observe TSUNAMI MEMORIAL SERVICE organized by the Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka today.
It’s been almost a year as if it was just that I started fund collection for the Tsunami Relief Fund for Sri Lanka. Almost all the doctor and the staff from KMC and many other people generously contributed for the humanitarian relief fund.
That is the reason why I have been invited in TSUNAMI MEMORIAL SERVICE day at Embassy of Sri Lanka, Maharajgunj.

Black day in the History:
On Dec. 26, 2004, at 7:59 AM local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami—a series of immense ocean waves triggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa. Some locations reported that the waves had even reached a height of 9 m (30 ft) or more when they hit the shoreline. At least 225,000 people were killed across a dozen countries, with Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustaining massive damage. Indonesian officials estimated that the death toll there could exceed 200,000, particularly in northern Sumatra's Aceh province. Tens of thousands were reported dead or missing in Sri Lanka and India, a large number of them from the Indian Andaman and Nicobar islands. The low-lying island nation of Maldives reported more than a hundred casualties and economic damage that could exceed the country's gross domestic product. Several thousand non-Asian tourists vacationing in the region also were reported dead or missing. The lack of food, clean water, and medical treatment—combined with the Herculean task faced by relief workers trying to get supplies into some remote areas where roads had been destroyed or civil war raged—increased the likelihood that the casualty list would continue to grow. Long-term environmental damage was almost as unimaginable as the loss of life, with tourist resorts, villages, farmland, and fishing grounds demolished or inundated with debris, bodies, and plant-killing salt water.

It’s been seen through the ages that no human has escape from the existence of the Mother Nature. xenoMED Family has always been in the frontline to help the people in need. It is not always the financial matter but emotional support also become vital during that period.
May we never witness such incidence in our life time.