The number of victims due to the 7.7 magnitude earthquake on the Richter open scale recorded on March 28 in the center of Burma, which also shook China and Thailand, has increased to more than 3,400 dead and more than 4,800 injured, according to the last balance.
To date 3,455 deaths and 4,840 injured have been confirmedalthough 214 people are still missing, as the official Chinese news agency Xinhua has known – citing Burman’s state radio, MRTV – for what It is feared that the dead number is greaterespecially because of the level of destruction and the fact that a week has passed since the earthquake.
The country is plunged into a serious crisis since the State’s coup d’etat, 2021, perpetrated by the Army to cancel the results of the general elections of November 2020. Subsequent repression resulted in a civil war that has had a huge impact on the situation in the country, now aggravated by the earthquake.
About 175,000 pregnant women in danger
The United Nations Population Fund has notified this Saturday that almost 175,000 pregnant women are at risk for losing access to crucial reproductive health services due to the impact of the devastating earthquake.
The UN warns that the cities of Sagaing, Mandalay and the capital, Naipyidó, the most affected, “face a serious shortage of medicines and medical equipment, as well as drinking water, food, refuge and other essential items for survival.”
The background has assigned 456,000 euros of its emergency fund to meet urgent needs Of the affected women and girls and has deployed a fast response team in Mandalay, where he coordinates with his humanitarian partners “the distribution of personal hygiene kits with essential supplies and hygienic delivery kits to support safe births.”
Also one Clinic aboard a shipsupported by the fund, has resumed its operations in Mandalay, and three mobile health teams have been deployed to provide primary health care, reproductive health services and emergency medical response in the affected areas.
However, the lack of electricity and water, access difficulties, infrastructure damage and kits replenishment are making delivery to help, so the FPNU “urges the international community to Urgently support efforts to save lives In Burma “.
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