DUBAI (Reuters) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Friday estimated the number of displaced people in areas hit by Storm Daniel in northeastern Libya at more than 38,640, in a message on the platform -form X.
“More than 5,000 people are presumed dead, with a total of 3,922 deaths recorded in hospitals, according to WHO (World Health Organization) sources,” adds the IOM in a situation update dated September 14 attached to his message.
At a press briefing in Geneva, UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths said priority was being given to providing shelter, food and primary health care due to shortages. of drinking water and the risk of cholera.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) redeployed to Libya a team of 15 people who had been operating in Morocco since the September 8 earthquake.
Martin Griffiths considered the idea of a maritime corridor to transport aid to the affected region, which borders the Mediterranean, a good idea, although he stressed that it was necessary to continue to transport aid by land routes, to people fleeing to the South and away from coastal towns.
(Nayera Abdallah, French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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