Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall across Nepal have claimed at least 74 lives as of Sunday evening, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported on Monday.
Nepali Home Ministry confirmed the death of at least 69 people and three more deaths on Sunday while two more deaths were reported in Udayapur and Dhanusha districts.
According to available data, floods and landslides have displaced at least 87,649 members of 15,879 families, destroyed at least 746 houses excluding 485 partially damaged houses due to rainfall in different parts of the country. At least 206 livestock were reported to have been killed.
Nepali government, in coordination with concerned ministries and humanitarian agencies, has geared up relief efforts for calamity-hit people.
The Central Disaster Relief Committee (CDRC) on Sunday decided to ask Nepali Health Ministry to dispatch medical teams to help prevent possible outbreak of epidemics, besides asking the Ministry of Physical Planning and Ministry of Water Resources to ensure swift delivery of drinking water and electricity supply to affected districts.
Manas Banerjee, chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control at the Health Ministry, said that separate medical teams for diarrhea, snake bites and injuries have already been sent to the respective districts.
Nepal Medical Association and medical colleges have been asked to send medical teams to affected areas.
Dev Ratna Dhakwa, General Secretary of Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS), said NRCS has already dispatched 8,100 kg of beaten rice, 645 kg of sugar, 580 cartons of noodles from Kathmandu to the respective districts. "Local level Red Cross has provided much relief to affected communities," he added.
Source: Xinhua
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