Under The Threat of Hunger and Disease
MAPUTO .- Hunger and disease are the new threats they faced yesterday more than one million flood victims in Mozambique, after the start of the fall of water in some areas of the country.
Sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the rapid emergence of epidemics of cholera and malaria among the refugees, who remain in precarious conditions and their number is greater than hitherto had been brought.
The range of aid agencies has been extended north of the worst affected regions, the valleys of the Limpopo and Save rivers to reach downtown areas of the country where famine has also emerged.
The crops and most of the cattle have been lost in the provinces of Gaza and Inhamban, which according to unconfirmed reports, raise a million and half the number of those affected by the disaster.
Sixty helicopters and planes from South Africa, Germany and France, among others, have initiated the launch of bags of food to help ease the situation of the population lacks safe drinking water.
President Joachim Chissano said that the people affected by flooding will have to be fed by public assistance for at least 10 months until they can plant and harvest new crops.
Some 250,000 people crowded into 64 camps are poorly equipped, and aid organizations have warned already that are running out of drinking water.
The WHO spokesman in Maputo, Carlos Tiny, expected in the coming days have seen a sharp increase in outbreaks of typhus and other diseases that occur in refugee centers in the cities of Xai-Xai and Choku.
In the camps mounted by aid organizations have started mass vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of diseases to the poor sanitary conditions.
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