Hazards grow for survivors Myanmar Quake, the health system ‘flooded’

Ten days after 7.7 magnitude with low buildings and buried bridges throughout the Meanmar, The latest death number has passed 3,500 and “likely to lift”Titon Mitra said, the UN Development Program (UNDP) Regional representative in the country, speaking from the devastated city of Mandalay.

He said that the answer was moved to the “tragic phase” switching from saved to the efforts in recovery.

Over 4,000 people have been injured in more than 80 percent of the buildings in steels, and in particular in the main city ships of Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway.

“The health system is completely overwhelmed, Hospitals cannot handle the number of patients engaged in“Mr. Mitra said, adding that drugs and health cases are in the” incredibly short offer “.

According to UN UN for humanitarian jobs office (Ocha), more than 500,000 people across the country remained without accessing health care in life.

Mr. Mitar UNDP also emphasized that the risk of miserable diseases is very high, because urban water systems are broken and the water storage equipment are damaged.

“Sanitation now becomes a big question As people who were forced from their homes resort to opening defecation, “he warned.

The disaster is complex with an intense rainy rain that began earlier than expected last week in Mandalay, influencing the response and deterioration of the living conditions of the homeless survivors.

Monsoon threat

The Myanmar’s meteorological department provides for rain and strong winds in large parts of the Earth to Friday.

Mr. Mitra said the shelter is a big question. People are “fearful” to return to their damaged homes and sleep on the streets at night, “often without any cover,” he told reporters in Geneva through video.

Food is also in huge demand as Markets are “strictly disturbed” In Sagaing and Magway people have no income and there are “signs of hyperinflation in place,” he said.

Mr. Mitar said that the UN system is mobilized and implemented initial assessments of fast needs. UNDP also evaluates the integrity of buildings to determine if they are safe for use.

This uncertainty affected the hospital in Saging where “all patients in the car park for 40 ° C,” he said. “If we take into account that the building can receive them, and then we want to return them as quickly as possible.”

The hostilities did not stop completely, but expressed optimism that help could reach all those who needed, after the ceasefire announced days after disaster by disasters fire groups.

Access to help

It remains the case that military authorities control many affected areas and coordinate support.

“With an active civil war we must be sure that help is, if coordinated by military authorities, goes to areas that can be in resistance control“” He insisted.

Earthquake disaster – the other only for Cylone Nargis in 2008. year that killed more than 130,000 people – in Myanmar died chronic and “very deep vulnerability,” UNDP official said.

People in the country have already suffered more than four years of struggles caused by Military Junta February 2021. years. D’État.

Before the earthquake, almost 20 percent of rice field have already been lost in conflictMore than 3.5 million people were forced to escape their homes, over 15 million faced hunger and estimated 19.9 million should help them.

“I hope … when the cameras are distracted from Myanmar, because they will inevitably have in the past, not to return to the neglected crisis“He concluded.