Tsunami survivors suffering infected wounds and pneumonia

Broken bones and infected wounds are the biggest health problem facing staff in overflowing hospitals in Indonesia’s shattered Aceh province, United Nations officials said today.

UNICEF director Carol Bellamy and World Health Organisation Director-General Dr Lee Jong-wook toured the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, visiting hospitals and makeshift clinics tending the thousands of people injured in the December 26 earthquake and tsunami.