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Hundreds still without food in cyclone-hit Fiji
Suva, Jan 21: More than 1,000 families in Fiji`s cyclone-battered northern islands are without food because relief distribution has been delayed, The Fiji Times reported today.
Suva, Jan 21: More than 1,000 families in Fiji's
cyclone-battered northern islands are without food because
relief distribution has been delayed, The Fiji Times reported
today.
Last week cyclone Ami slammed into Fiji's northern and
eastern islands leaving 14 confirmed deaths and nine missing.
Weather authorities are keeping a weary eye on a tropical system building northeast of the Solomon Islands and are concerned it will develop into another cyclone. In the town of Labasa on Vanua Levu, the area worst hit by Ami, soldiers are guarding food rations at a warehouse, awaiting orders from the disaster management committee before starting distribution.
The newspaper said hundreds of people had no food meanwhile. Police said they had to disperse a crowd of people waiting for food yesterday.
Doctors have warned of an outbreak of deadly diseases including typhoid. The Times said 60 cases of diarrhoea were reported in Labasa with a further 60 in Savusavu. Medical authorities also fear a similar trend in dengue, leptospirosis and typhoid if the situation were not controlled.
Among the casualties were four members of a family whose sole survivor was an 11-year-old boy, who said he had been with an uncle when the cyclone floods swept through, taking his family away.
Bureau Report
Weather authorities are keeping a weary eye on a tropical system building northeast of the Solomon Islands and are concerned it will develop into another cyclone. In the town of Labasa on Vanua Levu, the area worst hit by Ami, soldiers are guarding food rations at a warehouse, awaiting orders from the disaster management committee before starting distribution.
The newspaper said hundreds of people had no food meanwhile. Police said they had to disperse a crowd of people waiting for food yesterday.
Doctors have warned of an outbreak of deadly diseases including typhoid. The Times said 60 cases of diarrhoea were reported in Labasa with a further 60 in Savusavu. Medical authorities also fear a similar trend in dengue, leptospirosis and typhoid if the situation were not controlled.
Among the casualties were four members of a family whose sole survivor was an 11-year-old boy, who said he had been with an uncle when the cyclone floods swept through, taking his family away.
Bureau Report