Sanitation facilities are adequate but health services are almost non-existent. U.N. personnel include a Ukrainian company, nine military observers, a French medical and engineering unit. This southeastern enclave has been described as an open jail for about 50,000 people with no running water or police services. Violence, black market exploitation and prostitution are increasing. Food supplies arrive but distribution is chaotic with people fighting over supplies.
Health services are nearly non-existent and lack of water increases the risk of disease.
Two Canadian companies, an engineering unit and seven military observers are there. Preparations are being made for a potential exodus of up to 10,000 people, many of them refugees from Srebenica. Health services are strained and tuberculosis and hepatitus are on the increase. The population in the Tuzla area has reached 1 million with 250,000 in Tuzla proper. Three U.N. military observers are in the town.