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| Thursday, 27 January 2005 |
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Colombo: The UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has been focusing its emergency assistance on the healthcare needs of women and adolescent girls. The Fund is supplying essential drugs, medical equipment and supplies for ensuring safe deliveries and treating obstetric complications. Through its major partner organizations, UNFPA is involved in two other important post-tsunami activities: verifying reports of sexual and gender-based violence in temporary shelters, and providing support for psycho-social counselling for thousands of survivors. As part of its immediate response to the tsunami the UNFPA is assembling 300,000 hygiene packages and dispatching them to some of the hardest hit regions. The initial shipment of 25,000 packages were trucked to three devastated districts - Trincomalee, Galle and Hambantota - and one township, Moratuwa. These packages contain: soap, disinfectant, washing powder, sanitary napkins, ladies panties, toothbrush and toothpaste and towels. The kits are being assembled by youth volunteers from the National Youth Services Council and distributed by the Ministry of Health's Family Health Bureau and Sarvodaya with 10,000 local branches throughout the country, a press release said. To-date, UNFPA has shipped 50 tons of medicines, medical equipment and reproductive health supplies to stricken districts in all affected regions of the country. Another 36 tons of life-saving health supplies, including disposable syringes, blood transfusion equipment and supplies for emergency obstetric care will arrive shortly. UNFPA has mobilized $4.4 million in emergency assistance for Sri Lanka. |
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