"From Oxfam's experience aid air-drops can help but are hugely expensive, very limited in what they can deliver and are far from being smart aid bombs. Food and mosquito nets are needed and can be dropped from the sky but they cannot be targeted at the most vulnerable where they are most needed. Not only is food needed but also needed is clean water systems and safe sanitation which cannot be dropped from the sky.

"If there isn't an aid operation on the ground to distribute the aid the air-drops can exacerbate any tense relations within communities with only the fittest and fastest benefiting.

"At best aid air-drops can only be a partial solution, at worse they give the illusion that somehow we are addressing this ever worsening humanitarian crisis. The biggest risk is that aid air-drops will be a distraction from what is really needed - a highly effective aid operation on the ground. The highest diplomatic effort is still required to ensure that aid and aid experts are allowed into Myanmar to help save lives," said Jane Cocking Oxfam's Humanitarian Director.