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Nepal: ICRC provides humanitarian aid for victims of internal disturbances
26-04-2006 News Release 06/37
Kathmandu/Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has delivered medical supplies in Nepal to meet urgent needs arising from the recent events.
ICRC teams have been regularly visiting major hospitals in the Kathmandu valley to assess the situation. Because of the high numbers of wounded people requiring medical treatment, the organization delivered medical supplies, including dressing, immobilizing and suture materials, to Teaching Hospital, Bir Hospital and Kathmandu Model Hospital. The same kinds of materials were donated to the Mechi Zonal Hospital in Jhapa and to the Nepal Red Cross Society in Pokhara. The supplies were enough to treat up to 1,000 patients.
Beri Zonal Hospital in Nepalgunj and Pokhara Regional Hospital will also receive dressing sets and sets of plaster casting in the coming days.
In the Kathmandu valley alone, the Nepal Red Cross Society has deployed some 120 first-aid volunteers and gave first aid to approximately 2,000 people over the past few days. Several fixed and mobile teams provided first aid on the spot and transferred the wounded to hospital. The National Society also gave first aid in other districts.
Meanwhile, ICRC delegates continue to visit places of detention throughout the country. Some of the people they have visited were detained in connection with the recent internal disturbances.
The ICRC will continue to monitor the situation and stands ready to provide additional humanitarian assistance should the need arise.
For further information, please contact:
Giuseppe Pogliari, ICRC Kathmandu, tel. +977 1 44 82 285 or (mobile) +977 98510 34638
Carla Haddad, ICRC Geneva, tel. +41 22 730 24 05 or (mobile) +41 79 217 32 26
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