There is also a lack of bed sheets, mattresses and other consumable medical equipment such as sterile kits for surgeries, stitching materials and x-ray films.
After about a month, the Red Cross distributed 10 roofing sheets each to 1,720 families, and also sent a set of cooking utensils, bed sheets, and sleeping mats to 3,000 families.
Besides these donated items, the Administrative Center purchased ten tons of food, 500 sets of bed sheets, and hygiene products, as well as tools and work clothes for cleaning up after the disaster.
16.3 O’ora or the exchange of gifts is also tradition practiced at marriages in the Cook Islands whereby the family of both partners to a marriage offer gifts of tivaivai (bed spreads), woven mats, woven hats, bed sheets, cushion and pillow covers.
In what now resembles a ghost town, all public buildings, shops and homes were ransacked and set on fire, while the hospital was emptied of all medicines, furniture, beds and sheets
In what now resembles a ghost town, all public buildings, shops and homes were ransacked and set on fire, while the hospital was emptied of all medicines, furniture, beds and sheets.