A medical team from the Superyacht Dragonfly run an emergency medical clinic at Cooks Bay Erromango. Children were getting cuts from all the debris left by the cyclone and without proper care many were getting badly infected. Photo:
The University of Auckland has launched a programme to help ensure hospitals in Pacific Island countries are more aware of risks they face from cyclones and other extreme weather.
The risks for various hospitals in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tonga are being modelled to show what threats they face up to the end of this century, and to isolate possible new locations.
Project leader, climate scientist Dr Michelle McCrystall, told RNZ Pacific's Don Wiseman more about it.
