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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is releasing $2 million from its emergency fund to help the victims of floods in jap Libya, its director common stated on Thursday.
“Even while the death toll is increasing, the health needs of the survivors are becoming more urgent,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated.
Tedros, who described the floods as a “calamity of epic proportions”, stated WHO was deploying contingency provides which have been already in Libya, in addition to sending trauma, surgical and emergency provides from its logistics hub in Dubai.
Rescue work has been hindered by the political fractures within the nation of seven million individuals, which has been conflict on-and-off and lacked a authorities with nationwide attain since a NATO-backed rebellion toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
An internationally recognised Government of National Unity (GNU) relies in Tripoli, within the west. A parallel administration operates within the east, below management of the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar.
