Lenakel , Vanuatu ( CNN ) Jacobeth Nilah wails in pain in the storm-battered hospital . The 9-year-old girl suffered a head injury when the roof of her family home fell on top of her as Tropical Cyclone Pam raged over the South Pacific island where she lives . The storm , one of the most powerful ever to make landfall , killed her mother and brother . Now , Jacobeth 's life hangs in the balance , says Dr. Lawrence Boe . If she 's not airlifted soon , she could die in the stricken hospital whose equipment was damaged in the cyclone , the doctor told CNN on Tuesday . She needs surgery and a bed in an intensive care unit . Dr. Boe is the only doctor at the hospital , which is the only hospital on Tanna , one of more than 80 islands that make up the nation of Vanuatu . Cyclone Pam raked across the archipelago with 155 mph ( 250 kph ) winds over the weekend , destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 11 people . The storm also cut off communications between the capital , Port Vila , and many of the outer islands like Tanna . That left Dr. Boe unable to reach anyone in the capital to ask for supplies or a medevac for Jacobeth , who lies in a room with dozens of other patients who were injured in the storm . Dr. Boe used a CNN satellite phone on Tuesday to raise the alarm . He said he thinks authorities are going to send some help . He listed to CNN some of the basic but vital resources the hospital is lacking : `` Water and food for the patients and some medical supplies to deal with the injuries . IV fluids and rehydration fluids for dehydration . '' `` Water would be number one on the list , '' he said . Tanna is an hour-long flight from the capital . And the town of Lenakel , where the hospital is situated , is another 45 minutes of rugged driving from the airstrip . Aid groups have expressed serious fears about the potential scale of the devastation left by the cyclone on the more remote islands of Vanuatu , where many people live in rickety homes made of thatch or metal sheets . The death toll currently stands at 11 , according to Vanuatu authorities , five of them from Tanna . But officials say it will take days or even weeks to get a full picture of the destruction . The country 's roughly 260,000 citizens are spread across about 65 inhabited islands . Vanuatu 's President Baldwin Lonsdale has called Cyclone Pam `` a monster , '' saying it has set back the development of his country , already one of the poorest in the region , by years . One aid organization has said it could be one of the worst disasters ever to hit the Pacific . The storm flooded many of the wards of the hospital on Tanna , which lies near the southern end of the archipelago . Half of the hospital is unusable . As the cyclone pummeled the hospital and its surroundings , the patients cowered in two rooms . Uprooted trees now litter the building 's surroundings . Its flagpole was snapped in half . Volunteer nurses have come to help the dozens of patients . One baby was born Monday and now lies on a bed in the ruined maternity ward . Her parents , Alina and Ron Loman , have n't chosen a name yet . They 're just happy their child is healthy amid so much destruction . CNN 's Ivan Watson reported from Lenakel , and Jethro Mullen reported and wrote from Hong Kong . CNN 's Pamela Boykoff and Hilary Whiteman contributed to this report .
A 9-year - old boy with spinal injuries urgently needs airlifting for treatment , doctor says . He is the only doctor at the only hospital on the island of reunion in Vanuatu . severe Cyclone Pam has caused widespread flooding across the island worldwide .