WHO to Release $2m for Libya Emergency
The World Health Organization is adding its voice to the international response, saying it will release $2m (£1.6m) from its contingency fund to support the emergency effort in Libya.
The organisation’s chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also revealed that “28 metric tonnes of trauma, surgical and emergency supplies are due to arrive tomorrow from our logistics hub in Dubai”.
The WHO has now “activated its network of emergency medical teams”, he adds.
Eight countries and organisations “have offered their assistance” and a team from France “has already deployed its field hospital in the affected area”.
Still about 2,000 bodies in the sea – Red Crescent
Painstaking efforts are under way to recover the bodies of people who lost their lives in the flood – but the scale of the task is enormous.
Spokesperson for the Red Crescent in Derna, Salem al-Naas, tells the BBC “there are around 2,000 bodies in the sea” – adding that strong winds have blown bodies to nearby areas of Shahat, Martuba and Marzam.
“We saw this with our own eyes, we were at the Red Crescent hub and the force (of the wind) was strong.”
He adds there are also bodies being pulled “from houses and from under the rubble”.
BBC
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