An assessment mission led by the UN's World Health Organisation along Aceh's ravaged west coast found a glut of pain-killers and antibiotics, and a shortage of soap and bandages.
The expertise of Rio's scalpel wielders is second to none a Brazilian surgeon recently won a prize for the best hair transplant in the world and Rio's beach hotels are ideal for lurking in anonymity until you dare swap the bandages for the bikini.Bangkok is another city trying to get in on the act.
These are the enemies against which modern designers and engineers seek to pit their skills, producing new deterrents and defences ranging from bandages to bollards, which aim to combine effectiveness with ease of use".SAFE: Design Takes On Risk", a new show at the Museum of Modern Art, looks at how designers rise to the challenge.
(His turning up to campaign speeches with a face inexplicably swathed in bandages did little for his or Mr Abe's image, too).
And a less obvious application is in an easy-to-clean filter: stretch this filter and its pores grow, allowing stuff stuck in them to be flushed away when the filter is washed.That line of thinking leads to the idea of smart filters, which maintain a constant pore size by stretching as they get clogged up, and also to bandages that dispense drugs in response to swelling.
"It's a bit of a club atmosphere in here," says Barry Klein, director of the Taylor boutique.Barbers have come a long way since the days when they pulled teeth and therapeutically bled their clients—a practice thought to explain the traditional red-and-white striped pole, a reference to bloodied bandages.
His bandages were blown off, and he spent the next weeks curled round his raw wounds in a shelter, close to death.
Even if the junta had control over Maung Yawn, it could not do much: foreign malariologists working in Myanmar tell of government hospitals stocked with little more than bandages and a few painkillers.Medicines are not all that is in short supply.
At another Caracas hospital, a few days earlier, doctors were complaining they had to immobilise fractured limbs using cardboard boxes, because splints and bandages were in such short supply.The authorities dismiss these stories as part of a media campaign to destabilise the government.
Many skilled workers and professional people are trying to emigrate.The government has applied a few bandages to the currency haemorrhage.
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