India, Aug. 20 -- Direct Relief is sending emergency medical supplies, solar equipment and personal-care resources to communities cut off by flooding and infrastructure damage after Hurricane Lala swept south of Hawai'i Island.
Mobile Clinics Restore Vital Connections
Although Lala did not make landfall, heavy rainfall triggered severe flooding, damaged more than 100 homes and left roads and bridges impassable. Two deaths were reported, while around 19,000 utility customers across the state remained without electricity as of August 19.
Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai'i has deployed two mobile clinics equipped with Starlink satellite internet. The organisation is also working to establish satellite communications at hosp...