Burlington Post

In the typhoon-stricken Philippines, a Burlington woman is helping to provide medical care and ensure newborns arrive safely.

Family physician Lynda Redwood-Campbell is leading a Red Cross team in the coastal city of Ormoc.

There are a lot of women delivering babies. Its extremely busy and 90-95 per cent of the people do not have a roof over their heads, she said. For most of them, its a very tough time at Christmas time.

Redwood-Campbell is a team leader with an Emergency Response Unit that includes Canadian, Norwegian and Hong Kong Red Cross groups.

My role is to ensure the team is doing the work that needs to be done, she said during a recent telephone interview from the Philippines.

The Burlington resident said the team has aided many women in delivering their babies and has helped a lot of children.

There was the seven-year-old who contracted potentially-fatal tetanus after stepping on a piece of metal.

Every day, he got a bit better. We gave him medication, said Redwood-Campbell. The good news is that just a few days ago, he walked home.

The team has been helping at a 100-bed hospital reduced to 20 per cent capacity by Typhoon Haiyan.

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