Some aid getting through but not much

YANGON, Myanmar, May 7 (UPI) -- Aid has begun to trickle into cyclone-ravaged Myanmar but the challenge is to get it to victims in remote areas cut off from the rest of the country.

Richard Horsey with the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said some cargo flights had arrived in the Southeast Asian nation, formerly called Burma, the Democratic Voice of Burma reported.

However, he said the problem is not getting supplies to the former capital of Yangon, but transporting them from there to the back country.

Horsey said items desperately needed are plastic sheeting and roofing materials for shelter and water purification tablets to provide clean water.

Some supplies have already been stockpiled by the world body in Myanmar but getting them to the victims is another matter, the report said.

Relief teams are working their way through the Irrawaddy delta region to set up facilities for vehicle access to the remote areas, report said.

Horsey was quoted as saying Myanmar's military government was assisting in the relief effort by providing helicopters and boats.