Residents stroll over particles subsequent to a broken constructing in Naypyidaw on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar. Agence France-Presse
GENEVA — The WHO stated it had triggered its emergency administration system in response to Friday’s “large” earthquake in Myanmar and was mobilizing its logistics hub in Dubai to organize trauma damage provides.
The World Well being Group is coordinating its earthquake response from its Geneva headquarters “as a result of we see this as an enormous occasion” with “clearly a really, very large menace to life and well being”, spokeswoman Margaret Harris instructed a media briefing.
“We’ve activated our logistics hub to look notably for trauma provides and issues like exterior fixators as a result of we anticipate that there can be many, many accidents that have to be handled,” Harris stated.
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She stated the WHO would even be concentrating on getting in important medicines, whereas the well being infrastructure in Myanmar itself is perhaps broken.
Harris stated that on account of current expertise with the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes, “we all know very properly what you want to ship in first”.
The UN well being company already has a particular cell to cope with Myanmar, which has been rocked by preventing between quite a few ethnic insurgent teams and the military.
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And by probability, the WHO had carried out an evaluation in current weeks of the perfect methods to get provides into Myanmar.
“We’re prepared to maneuver in — however now we have now to know precisely the place, what and why. It’s data from the bottom that’s actually vital proper now,” stated Harris.
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