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SINGAPORE'S first aid shipment to cyclone-devastated Myanmar left the city-state on Wednesday afternoon, with mostly medical supplies being sent, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.
The assistance was heading to Myanmar's main city of Yangon, the spokeswoman said.
The supplies, in plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes, included eye drops and syringes, which were loaded into the plane's cargo bay, a photographer saw.
As part of an international effort to help the stricken nation, Singapore said on Tuesday it will give Myanmar 200,000 US dollars (S$272,016) worth of aid including medical supplies, drinking water, water purifying tablets, tents, groundsheets, blankets, sleeping bags and emergency food.
Myanmar's military junta said more than 22,000 people were killed and 41,000 missing after the storm slammed into the country's southern coast over the weekend.
International aid organisations said on Wednesday they were awaiting permission to enter Myanmar, where they reported bodies rotting on the ground and cyclone survivors dying from hunger and disease. -- AFP
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