“The whole communities are flattened,” she said, with children and families who slept outdoors without homes to return.
“I met children who were in shock after witnesses of their homes collapsed or the death of a family member … some are separate from parents, and others are inactive.
Some 72 hours after the earthquake, Sagaing regions, as well as Nay Pyi Taw and South Shan State, climbed the death path to about 2,000, according to the military state, and thousands.
“Savability reaction window,” Mrs. Rees said, while in affected areas, families faced an acute lack of clean water, food and medical necessities. But the terms remain extremely challenging as Help teams work “without electricity or sanitary ware, sleep outside, like communities we serve.”
International response
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) He said local search and rescue teams, which supported international rescue units from several countries, including China, India, Russia, Thailand and Bangladesh, especially in central Myanmar, which continued to experience the consequences.
RELEF CHIED TOM FLETCHER, which takes OCHA, reiterated in the post on X which other than great damage to infrastructure Answer “has hindered the lack of funding”. He said that the UN is in contact with the MinarMaric authorities about how the international community can do more, with budgets for abroad in Washington and many European capitals.
Top Humanitarian field official, Marcoluigi Corsi, fresh from a visit to the country of Nay Pyi Taw, said that as a critical window to find the survivors of narrowing, the conditions in the affected areas continued to worsen.
“You don’t have electricity, you don’t have liquid water,” he said, while people fought with summer heat. “There are often intermediaries and people are afraid to enter their homes,” he added.
Hospitals are flooded
Dr. Fernando Thushara, a World Health Representative (WHO) In Myanmar, he said that in Nay Pyi Taw saw the hospitals “flooded with patients.”
“The medical material is dry. There were electricity disorders in some hospitals … and shortage shortages,” he said, adding that in some cases electricity generators did not work hospitals.
Dr. Thushara warned that The lack of fresh water and sanitary sanitary could emphasize outbreaks of infectious diseases, “unless we control them very quickly”.
He reminded that a few months ago, several cities in Mandalai affected Cholera. About 800 cases of diseases with a beaten water were recorded by February into nine states and regions in Myanmar, while other infectious diseases such as Dengue, Hepatitis, Malaria can be further expanded.
A cargo health situation is not the only crisis facing the people of Myanmar. UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Spokesman Babar Baloch emphasized that the country “attacked” from four years of conflict caused military coup in 2021, while the UN Mr. Corsi said that in recent years he suffered cyclone and massive floods.
Mr. Baloch spoke about the “double tragedy” for the people of Myanmar, emphasizing the fact that even before the elaborate earthquake is hit, all affected areas were already hosted by 1.6 million displaced people.
Mr. Corsi stressed that the resistance to communities affected by disasters is now very endangered. Nearly 20 million people across the country have already needed humanitarian aid before the earthquake hit and over 15 million was hungry.
Over three months in the year, UN is 1.1 billion dollars for a humanitarian appeal for Myanmar remains only five percent of funded. “This is the time … that the world is strengthening and supports people of Myanmar,” he concluded.
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