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Nigeria's flood survivors face long wait for medical aid
Bangkok Post Group
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9/17/2024
The worst floods in three decades to hit Nigeria's Borno state are stretching government and aid agency resources, causing long delays for medical aid amid warnings of waterborne disease. - REUTERS
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In a camp for people displaced by floods in Nigeria's Borno state, Bintu Amadu is among
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hundreds of people who've been waiting for hours to see a doctor.
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Her son had diarrhoea.
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She says she's been waiting since yesterday to no avail.
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Overwhelmed aid agencies have warned of an outbreak of waterborne disease amid the region's
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worst flooding in three decades.
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Hundreds of thousands of people, like Amadu, have been forced into displacement camps
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without food and clean water.
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And that's stretching aid agency and government resources, exacerbating a critical humanitarian
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crisis.
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The demand is so massive, the needs are so massive.
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Mathias Homare, a field coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières, said that Borno residents
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were already struggling with malnutrition following years of a jihadist insurgency
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in the region.
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And that means their immunity was already suppressed.
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People are living out and about, they are exposed to the environment.
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So what do we see?
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A lot of waterborne diseases, diarrhoea, diarrhoeic diseases, you've got malaria, malaria is around
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with a lot of mosquitoes, people are not able to sleep on their mosquito nets.
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The floods, which have killed more than 30 people in Nigeria, started when a dam burst
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its walls.
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That's after heavy rainfall that has also caused floods in Cameroon, Chad, Mali and
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Niger.
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In the last two weeks of August, more than 1.5 million people were displaced across 12
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countries in Western Central Africa due to floods.
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That's according to the United Nations Humanitarian Office, which said around 465 people have
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been killed.
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Nigeria's government has separately warned of rising water levels in the country's largest
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rivers, which could cause floods in the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south.
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