Six months into battle for Mosul, water and trauma care are key UN and partner priorities
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UN relief workers concerned about civilians in Mosul threatened by Iraqi forces, ISIL
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As a new front opens in the fight between Iraqi forces and the group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) in north-western Mosul city, United Nations humanitarian staff are raising concern about hundreds of thousands of civilians still living in the area.
Speaking to reporters in New York, the Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said that some 360,000 people are believed to be caught between the fighters.
“Families continue to arrive at the newly established mustering point at Badoush, northeast of Mosul, along the Syrian highway, where emergency assistance and basic services are being provided by humanitarian partners,” Stéphane Dujarric said, citing information from UN humanitarian authorities.
Aid workers are responding to these and families still trapped inside “wherever access allows.”
They are providing emergency response packages with basic food, water and hygiene items. Some 2.6 million people have received aid since October.
The UN and partners is trucking 3.1 million litres of water per day into eastern Mosul to meet water shortages. That figure was about 2.3 million litres at the end of April.
In addition to aid, the UN is concerned about the high trauma and casualty rates.
Since 17 October, health care partners report over 12,000 people have been referred to hospitals in Mosul and neighbouring governorates, and nearly half of these reported cases were from west Mosul only, Mr. Dujarric said.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that new field hospitals have also been created, one for emergency reproductive and obstetric healthcare.
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“ UN relief workers concerned about civilians in Mosul threatened by Iraqi forces, ISIL ”
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