January 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Indonesia: Tsunami: Maine Today: Gabon RPCV George Friou will head to Indonesia this week to help restore a health-care infrastructure
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January 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Indonesia: Tsunami: Maine Today: Gabon RPCV George Friou will head to Indonesia this week to help restore a health-care infrastructure
Gabon RPCV George Friou will head to Indonesia this week to help restore a health-care infrastructure
Gabon RPCV George Friou will head to Indonesia this week to help restore a health-care infrastructure
Portland man to help Indonesian tsunami victims
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine — A Portland man whose career as a public health consultant has taken him to some of the world´s most tragic disasters will head to Indonesia this week to help restore a health-care infrastructure.
George Friou leaves Friday for Banda Aceh, Indonesia, a provincial capital on the northern tip of Sumatra. The region was among the most devastated when an earthquake triggered a tsunami last month.
Friou, 48, will direct a team of nine health officials who will survey regions swamped by the tsunami and recommend both immediate measures and longer-term steps for rebuilding the health-care infrastructure.
Of the approximately 152,000 people killed, nearly two-thirds of the victims were Indonesians. The wave left 5 million Indonesians homeless in a matter of hours, and the death toll continues to grow.
Friou has witnessed many public health problems since entering the field more than 20 years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer in central Africa. In the late 1980s and early ´90s, he spent four years running refugee camps in Pakistan.
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