Croatia Earthquake Situation Report #2, January 8, 2021
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Our Footprint
International Medical Corps has a global support office and logistics hub in Split, Croatia. Our team includes more than 100 staff members.
Our Response
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, International Medical Corps deployed personal protective equipment (PPE) and an Emergency Response Team to assess the damage in Petrinja, Sisak, Glina and the surrounding villages.
Healthcare facilities in Petrinja and Glina are unsalvageable. To meet the urgent need to restore primary care access,
International Medical Corps mobilized two temporary structures to support services in central Croatia.
Critical needs in the health sector include PPE, medical equipment and supplies, and two additional temporary structures to facilitate continued delivery of healthcare services.
Croatia Earthquake Situation Report #1, December 31, 2020
Format
Our Footprint
International Medical Corps has a global support office and logistics hub in Split, Croatia. Our team includes more than 100 staff members.
Our Response
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, International Medical Corps deployed personal protective equipment (PPE) and an Emergency Response Team to assess the damage in Petrinja, Sisak, Glina and the surrounding villages.
Healthcare facilities throughout the affected region have been damaged by the earthquake. Critical needs in health sector include PPE, medical equipment and supplies, and temporary structures to facilitate continued delivery of healthcare services.
Just after noon local time on Tuesday, December 29, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck central Croatia about 30 miles southeast of the capital, Zagreb, near the towns of Petrinja and Sisak. The quake the second to hit the area in two days and the strongest recorded in 140 years kille
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Originally published on December 23, 2020 11:42 am Losing my child while I am watching is breaking my heart, says Mohammed Yousuf as he tries to calm his crying son. I feel so worried for my son. I won t rest until my son is completely healed.
Yousuf lives in Yemen. His 1-year-old son, Abdullah, has been at a health facility in Sana a, the capital city, where doctors are feeding him reconstituted milk from powder formulated for children with malnutrition to keep him alive.
On Dec. 5, Abdullah weighed 6 pounds on his fifth day of treatment for severe acute malnutrition, says his attending clinician, Dr. Abdelmalek Mohammed. That s less than one-third of the average weight for his age. The doctor s diagnosis of severe acute malnutrition is a medical classification reserved for the worst cases. Yousuf and his wife, Fadiah, traveled 15 hours by bus through dozens of military checkpoints to bring their child to the facility in Sana a. He spoke