Pandaw IV with Merlin

Pandaw IV is being operated by Merlin, a UK based charity - www.merlin.org.uk - who were already operating in the Laputta area with a good existing network of medics and health workers in the area. The ship is well supplied with emergency kits and medical equipment. There are 6 doctors on board together with paramedics and 20 members of the Pandaw crew who are assisting Merlin in the operation. As of 2 June the number of patients treated on Pandaw IV was 1,907. All patients and vistors are given a meal and a Pandaw Family Box to take home.

Dining Room converted to clinic area. Five more doctors have arrived since this photo was taken so there are now more partitoned surgery areas and the bar upstairs converted to full operating theatre. 

People waiting in the passage outside. They start arriving at 3am.

Pandaw chefs prepare quick meals for patients and visitors and snacks doled out to people waiting

Baby girl born on Pandaw IV delivered by the Merlin doctor

Ko Win Hlaing our Purser becomes godfather! Baby to be named Ma Pandaw.

Ko Win Hlaing gives the mother a bag of rice to take home

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Local boats coming from the villages as word spreads