Manila  - A 30-member Philippine medical team will leave for Myanmar next week to help victims of a deadly cyclone that left 133,000 people dead or missing, a government spokesman said Friday.

Anthony Golez, deputy presidential spokesman, said the medical team was scheduled to fly to the cyclone-battered South-East Asian country on Monday.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo formed the medical team a few days after the Cyclone Nargis pummelled the central coast of Myanmar on May 2-3, but it was stuck in Manila after failing to secure travel documents to the reclusive nation.

International aid agencies estimate that up to 2 million people in Myanmar are desperately in need of food, water, shelter and medicine after the disaster, deemed the worst to hit South-East Asia since the December 2004 tsunami. (dpa)