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Helping tsunami survivors in Aceh : Dr Tira Aswitama

Indonesia / 27.08.07

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Only three days after she graduated as a medical doctor from Jakarta University, 28-year-old Tira Aswitama joined Médecins Sans Frontières in Aceh to help survivors after the Tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean in 2004.

This was her first experience working for an emergency organisation. Nearly three years have passed and the project in Aceh is now closed.

Tira has joined Médecins Sans Frontières' emergency pool in Jakarta, a team on the stand-by to respond to natural disasters and epidemics in this vast country prone to many earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and flooding.

  

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