Help scant in Myanmar village deep inside delta

A Myanmar Red Cross team visited the village last week for the first time, survivors said, but it was too late for three of the villagers — a man and two children — who they said died from diarrhea and food poisoning.

One of Mar Mar Oo's twin daughters has been running a fever and coughing for 15 days.

"The medical workers gave her medicine, but I don't know whether it will last until the next doctor comes," the young mother said, frowning as she tucked the 3-year-old girls under a pale blue cloth for an afternoon nap in the monastery.

The monastery's corrugated metal roof was riddled with holes that let rain drip in, forming puddles on the floor.

For farmers, rain is usually a blessing, but these days, it's also a curse that haunts many survivors.

Curled into a tight ball in a corner of the monastery, Kyin Mya jumped as raindrops fell from the leaking roof.

"Is the wind strong? Is the wind strong?" the 59-year-old woman asked, her eyes wide with fear, her hand trembling as she tried to eat a biscuit.

Her husband and 5-year-old granddaughter drowned as they were carried away in the storm surge.

Echoing a common fear that speaks of the trauma experienced by the survivors, Kyin Mya asked: "Do you know if another storm is coming?"

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