WFP’s Pacific Humanitarian Air Service and the Red Cross join forces to deliver relief to typhoon-devastated Palau
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AIRAI, Palau – Relief aid is arriving in Palau after Typhoon Surigae left a trail of destruction across the tiny island state of Palau, damaging some 1500 homes, destroying roads, and cutting off water and power supplies.
To transport vital relief supplies from stockpiles in Kuala Lumpur to remote affected communities, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have joined forces.
The collaboration includes IFRC relief supplies, along with 400 family kits donated by the Government of Australia brought in from WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using the Pacific Humanitarian Air Service also managed by WFP. USAID offered humanitarian assistance worth US$ 100,000 towards IFRC relief supplies.
Press Release – ICRC PNG, 8 May 2021 Today, we are celebrating World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, a day dedicated recognising the impact of Red Cross staff and volunteers. This year the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is recognising the role staff …
PNG, 8 May 2021 – Today, we are celebrating World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, a day dedicated recognising the impact of Red Cross staff and volunteers. This year the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is recognising the role staff and volunteers have played in reaching and supporting people affected by COVID-19, especially in places of detention, remote parts of PNG and hospitals in the 20 provinces where the PNGRCS volunteers are actively working and committed to giving support to local communities in an unstoppable manner.
Nepal reeling from second wave of coronavirus
He appealed to people to remain in home isolation if they test positive for COVID-19 and to visit hospitals only in emergency situations.
Many hospitals in the Himalayan nation are overflowing with COVID-19 patients and there aren t enough beds, essential medicines and health equipment.
There s also a severe shortage of medical oxygen, which is a critical resource for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. To overcome the shortage, Gautam said, Nepal is trying to import oxygen cylinders from China through a government-to-government agreement.
Nepal has only 1,595 ICU beds and 480 ventilators for its almost 30 million people, according to an official COVID response plan officials came up with in May 2020. The country has only 0.7 doctors per 100,000, according to the report.
KATHMANDU (XINHUA, KATHMANDU POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Nepal logged another record high of Covid-19 cases on Thursday (May 6) with 9,070 infections, raising concerns that it could be like next-door India which is struggling through a tsunami of coronavirus infections and deaths.
Nepal has also been reporting a surge of deaths caused by Covid-19 with 54 new deaths reported on Thursday, the third day in a row that the country has chalked up more than 50 deaths.
The spike in Covid-19 cases started on April 18 when 1,015 cases were recorded, and began hitting new highs from then on, overwhelming the healthcare system as patients scramble for intensive care beds.
Nepal doctors warn of escalating COVID cases of major crisis Coronavirus pandemic News
On the other side of the border due to the devastating flood in India, Nepalese doctors warned on Friday that there was a serious crisis as daily coronavirus cases were on record and hospitals were running out of beds and oxygen.
Nepal confirmed 9,070 new cases on Thursday, up from 298 years ago. More than 3,500 people have died since the pandemic began, 400 of them in the last two weeks alone, according to official data.
“There are currently no beds available at any hospital that treats COVID patients,” said Jyotindra Sharma, head of Kathmandu Hospital for Advanced Medicine and Surgery, Associated Pressi.