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Chronic illness and diarrhea surge in quake-hit Venezuelan communities as humanitarian crisis builds
The appeal targets 1.3 million people as mobile clinics report more skin, diarrheal and chronic-illness cases among displaced residents.
- On Thursday, the United Nations launched an appeal for roughly $300 million to assist 1.3 million people in Venezuela following twin earthquakes that struck last month.
- The twin earthquakes killed 3,811 people and destroyed 190 buildings, leaving about 18,000 people without a home; The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates direct physical damage at around $37 billion.
- Mobile clinics now dot the state of Guaira, where doctors report an increase in skin conditions, diarrheal diseases, and requests for chronic illness medications including diabetes and high blood pressure treatments.
- U.N. relief chief Tom Fletcher observed survivors now require long-term treatment rather than just trauma care, with the United States providing most earthquake-response aid so far.
- The government of President Nicol Maduro, which previously repressed nongovernmental organizations, now permits their widespread presence to deliver aid, marking a significant shift in crisis response.
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Chronic illness and diarrhea surge in quake-hit Venezuelan communities as humanitarian crisis builds
Victims of last month's powerful earthquakes in Venezuela are flooding relief services. The United Nations has launched an appeal for $300 million to help 1.3 million people in urgent need.
·New York, United States
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The victims of the simultaneous earthquakes that struck Venezuela last month, as well as some other people who got rid of the destruction, came Thursday in large numbers in search of some of the aid services offered by non-governmental organizations in the most affected areas.
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