Highlights
As of 26 November 2013, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) of the Philippines reported 5 240 deaths, 25 615 injured, and 1 613 missing. A total of 9 927 335 have been affected with 3 393 940 displaced. Of the displaced, 240 377 are currently living in 1 092 evacuation centres.
Health needs have shifted from immediate trauma care to broader public health is-sues. The five main causes of illness currently are acute respiratory infection, fever, diarrhea, hypertension and skin disease.
A total number of 55 regis-tered Foreign Medical Teams (FMTs) are in the af-fected areas composed of more than 1 100 medical staff as of 26 November 2013. There are an addition-al 12 medical teams in coun-try that have not yet regis-tered. Forty-seven of the field hospitals established are type 1. There are 6 teams with type 2 hospitals and two teams with a type 3 hospital. There are five more teams on standby outside of the country. An additional 103 national and local medi-cal teams have also been deployed to the affected are-as.
