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A devastating typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines has unexpectedly given young traffic accident victim Mario Renos hope that he could one day walk again.
Hit by a motorcycle while walking to school months before Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central islands, the 13-year-old's shrivelled legs are taking their first steps to recovery at a Red Cross tent hospital put up in Basey town.
"I want to go back to school," said Renos, gritting his teeth as he held on to metal railings with both hands while trying to negotiate an improvised exercise stall made of lumber from typhoon-felled coconuts.
"There is no reason he can't walk again," said Norwegian nurse Janecke Dyvi as she coaxed the boy across.
Staffed by doctors and nurses from 10 European nations and offering its services for free, the $1.6 million hospital has uncovered a huge unmet need on Samar island, one of the country's poorest regions.
Survivors of the ferocious winds and giant waves that flattened Basey's coastal neighbourhoods on November 8 are now flocking by the thousands to the medical facility that locals have affectionately named the "Norwegian Hospital".
And it is not just those injured directly by the typhoon who are feeling the benefits of such aid.
Pitched beneath the damaged municipal gym, the hospital's six air-conditioned tents have brought relief for a multitude of injuries including centipede bites, harelips, traffic accidents, strokes and burns, and other ailments and conditions unrelated to the typhoon.
It also successfully delivered the town's first ever baby via caesarean section, said its Norwegian administrator Kjell Engkrog.
Haiyan, one of the country's deadliest natural disasters which left nearly 8,000 people dead or missing and 4.4 million others homeless, also wrecked Basey's hilltop district hospital.
The temporary replacement is the same type as those put up by the Red Cross in conflict areas around the
A devastating typhoon that killed thousands of people in the Philippines has unexpectedly given young traffic accident victim Mario Renos hope that he could one day walk again.
Hit by a motorcycle while walking to school months before Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the central islands, the 13-year-old's shrivelled legs are taking their first steps to recovery at a Red Cross tent hospital put up in Basey town.
"I want to go back to school," said Renos, gritting his teeth as he held on to metal railings with both hands while trying to negotiate an improvised exercise stall made of lumber from typhoon-felled coconuts.
"There is no reason he can't walk again," said Norwegian nurse Janecke Dyvi as she coaxed the boy across.
Staffed by doctors and nurses from 10 European nations and offering its services for free, the $1.6 million hospital has uncovered a huge unmet need on Samar island, one of the country's poorest regions.
Survivors of the ferocious winds and giant waves that flattened Basey's coastal neighbourhoods on November 8 are now flocking by the thousands to the medical facility that locals have affectionately named the "Norwegian Hospital".
And it is not just those injured directly by the typhoon who are feeling the benefits of such aid.
Pitched beneath the damaged municipal gym, the hospital's six air-conditioned tents have brought relief for a multitude of injuries including centipede bites, harelips, traffic accidents, strokes and burns, and other ailments and conditions unrelated to the typhoon.
It also successfully delivered the town's first ever baby via caesarean section, said its Norwegian administrator Kjell Engkrog.
Haiyan, one of the country's deadliest natural disasters which left nearly 8,000 people dead or missing and 4.4 million others homeless, also wrecked Basey's hilltop district hospital.
The temporary replacement is the same type as those put up by the Red Cross in conflict areas around the