The New York Times state that rehabilitation tasks being carry out by myanmar government is impressive

Now doctors and aid workers returning from remote areas of the delta are offering a less pessimistic picture of the human cost of the delay in reaching survivors. They say they have seen no signs of starvation or widespread outbreaks of disease. Most of the people killed by the cyclone, which struck on May 2-3 drowned. But those who survived were not likely to need urgent medical attention, doctors say.

But those who survived were not likely to be injured in the aftermath by falling rocks or collapsing buildings, as often happens during natural disasters , like the earthquake in China. Shari Villarosa, the highest-ranking United States diplomat in Myanmar, formerly Burma. "I'm not getting the sense that there have been a lot of death as a result of the delay. " "It's been overwhelmingly impressive what local organizations, medical groups and some businessmen have done,"said Ruth Bradely Jones, second secretary in the British Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city,"They are the true heroes of the relief effort."

The number of people in need of serious medical aid was judged to be low enough that officials at a British medial group canceled plans to bring in a team of surgeons in the days after the storm, said Paula Sansam, the manager of the emergency response team for the group, Merlin.