The team assessed the scale of medical and sanitation needs. The situation for the local population is very difficult, due to food and medical supplies shortage.
Drinking water is especially scarce and epidemics are feared with the coming summer.
Seven hospitals are now operational, albeit with great difficulty. The ICRC also set up bread production and distribution for some 3500 people, as well as a home-visiting nurses programme for the elderly, handicapped an isolated people. IOM experts assist migrants world-wide Conflicts, disasters and crisis throw more and more people on the roads to exile. During the recent months, IOM has been involved in several projects in war-torn regions, such as Afghanistan, Kosovo and Timor. The organisation is also involved in the fight against trafficking of human beings, as well as relocating and helping the integration of refugees.