| JAKARTA, Indonesia: The United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is to send 1700 various individual
kits and 100 midwifery kits as part of its US$
50,000-worth humanitarian assistance to survivors of the Saturday
flash flood and landslide in Manggarai regency,
East Nusa Tenggara province.
A part from kits distribution, the Fund is currently
working with local District Health Office and community health
center to provide mobile reproductive health services
to the affected communities and to establish a referral health
system.
According to Bakornas, the disaster killed 36 people,
injured 26 and rendered at least 1,839 people displaced. To
date, 38 people have been declared missing.
Head of Kupang office of the Meteorology and Geophysics
Agency Albert Kusbagio warned that people in the region should
remain alert as heavy rains are still expected in the next
few days.
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