The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched a flash appeal to provide humanitarian assistance to women and girls affected by the recent floods in Libya. According to the UNFPA, around 24,000 women and girls in need of humanitarian assistance across flood-affected areas in Libya lack basic sexual and reproductive health services. The fund also added that it is expected around 10 % of them will give birth next month.
The fund has sent mobile medical teams to five primary healthcare facilities in Derna to continue providing health services to mothers and children. The fund has also partnered with Amazon Sat to deploy mobile social workers to visit displaced women in Benghazi due to the crisis and provide support in the field of mental health.
The executive director of the UNFPA, Natalia Kanem, said that the fund is mobilizing its efforts to provide life-saving health care and supplies to women and girls in need, to fill the gap in services and support.
The devastating impact of Storm Daniel on Derna is evident in the path of destruction it left behind; it confirmed that the least clear, but no less important, are the mental scars left by the disaster, where emotional and psychological wounds will take time to heal according to one of the workers at Derna Hospital.
