 About 500 family kits containing non-food items, such as tarpaulins and mosquito nets, had been distributed by the Myanmar Red Cross Society and another 1,200 were being sent to the area.By the start of November, the government of Myanmar requested medial aid from the United Nations as a cholera outbreak began to unfold.Additional post-storm diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, eye infections and skin diseases became prevalent as well.