story clinic _ which was badly damaged by sea water that rose to about a meter and a half (4.5 feet) inside _ has been receiving assistance from the international aid group Medicins Sans Frontiers, or Doctors Without Borders. It's now reopened and restocked with drugs and supplies, but only a handful of its 65 doctors, nurses and midwives have returned to work. Many are suffering from shock, said Dr. Furkan Syah, the clinic's director. That's typical of the situation in cities and towns all along Aceh's shattered west coast. In the provincial capital Banda Aceh, five out of eight hospitals and the national health ministry's branch office were ruined. Of 9,800 ministry staff in Aceh, 161 died and 688 are unaccounted for, the government said, though there's no count yet of the number of doctors and nurses killed. At a pharmaceutical warehouse torn apart by the waves in Banda Aceh, boxes of vitamins for pregnant women and antibiotics are strewn among rubble. Chow, the U.N. official, said Aceh's tuberculosis treatment program, which previously provided daily medication to 1,400 people, has been disrupted, raising fears that irregular drug use could breed resistant strains of the disease. At the Meureubo clinic, women and children crowded outside the small consultation room where Dr. Morten Rostrup, a Norwegian emergency expert from Doctors Without Borders, saw a string of patients with problems like indigestion, chest pain and vision trouble. --more 1207 Local Time 0907 GMT
