More UN aid continues to arrive in Sichuan
Updated: 2008-06-04 07:54
The United Nations continues to deliver more relief supplies and equipment for earthquake victims as part of its mid- to long-term rehabilitation and reconstruction plan.
Health supplies from the UN Population Fund will arrive in Chengdu tomorrow to help ensure mothers can safely deliver their babies, and treat sexually transmitted infections.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will send 4,000 tents in the next two week bringing the total number to 15,000.
The UN Children Fund last week shipped 100 mobile toilets, 50,000 items of clothing for children, and 86 tons of health and nutritional food for children and pregnant women.
The UN Development Programme has so far distributed 30,000 quilts, 10,000 emergency torches, and 450 tents.
The World Health Organization has sent a regional advisor on mental health to help in psychosocial services.
The agency is also coordinating the delivery of more than $1.3 million in health supplies and water purification equipment donated by the Norwegian government.
Essential medicines, sufficient to treat 120,000 people for a month, arrived in Sichuan's capital, Chengdu last Friday.
In addition, the World Food Program has sent 383 tons of rice and vegetable oil to the city of Mianyang and a large shipment of flour will arrive in a few days.
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