The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has confirmed the need to boost cooperation between the National Center for Disease Control and UNICEF in providing emergency healthcare.
Dbeibah added in a meeting with the Regional director of UNICEF office in the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Khodr, in Tripoli, where they discussed the need to carry out a census of the children by the surveys sector of UNICEF in coordination with the Libyan Planning Ministry.
The Libyan Prime Minister called for focusing on Derna city as well as the rest of the disaster areas by providing the people who suffered from the rainstorm and floods with all the necessary services.
The meeting also saw discussions on the efforts exerted by UNICEF in Derna through the support given to the field healthcare and coordination with the National Center for Disease Control as well as the Libyan Environmental Protection Authority.
UNICEF said in a report on Saturday that children were among the most affected, at heightened risk of public health threats, mental health and psychosocial disorders following the floods and destruction caused by Storm Daniel in eastern Libya.
The report said that 55 cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) among children displaced in shelters were reported by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), while out of 43,059 internally displaced persons (IDPs) by the floods according to IOM-DTM, UNICEF estimated that at least 17,000 could be children.
