EL SALVADOR: UNITED NATIONS FOOD PROGRAMME SAY 200,00 VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE URGENTLY NEED FOOD AS EMERGENCY CONTINUES
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EL SALVADOR: UNITED NATIONS FOOD PROGRAMME SAY 200,00 VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE URGENTLY NEED FOOD AS EMERGENCY CONTINUES
- Title: EL SALVADOR: UNITED NATIONS FOOD PROGRAMME SAY 200,00 VICTIMS OF EARTHQUAKE URGENTLY NEED FOOD AS EMERGENCY CONTINUES
- Date: 21st January 2001
- Summary: COMASAGUA, EL SALVADOR. (JANUARY 19, 2001)(REUTERS) 1. SLV PEOPLE IN SHELTER; SLV PEOPLE STANDING IN LINE; MV WORKERS HANDING OUT FOOD; MV/SCU FOOD (15 SHOTS) 0.56 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME REPRESENTATIVE GUY GAUBREAU SAYING "We need to make an urgent call for more food for the more isolated areas." 1.08 3. SLV EXTERIOR OF SHELTER WITH WOMEN CARRYING AID MATERIALS; SLV INTERIOR AID SHELTER (3 SHOTS) 1.26 SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR. (JANUARY 19, 2001)(REUTERS) 4. SLV FIELD; MV SALVADORAN POLICE DIGGING; MV TWO SOLDIERS CARRYING BAGS OF QUICKLIME; POLICE SPREADING QUICKLIME (4 SHOTS) 1.41 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) UNIDENTIFIED SALVADORAN POLICEMAN SAYING "We are spreading quicklime in this area to prevent an epidemic developing." 1.53 6. SCU SEVERED FOOT; MV POLICE BURYING FOOT AND SPREADING QUICKLIME OVER IT; SLV FIELD; SLV POLICE COLLECTING BAGS OF QUICKLIME (6 SHOTS) 2.26 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) SALVADORAN PRESIDENT FRANCISCO FLORES SAYING "We believe that one of the most important things in managing a crisis is to have clear priorities and to divide job tasks, this must be done with the countries as well. We needed to build an airlift and we did it with Venezuela. When we needed to enter an area with probable survivors we used experts from Mexico. When we needed emergency housing we coordinated this with Spain. So what we are saying is based on what we need we must divide the tasks accordingly." 3.08 8. SLV RELIEF WORKERS CARRY OUT DEAD 3.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: COMASAGUA, SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
- Country: El Salvador
- Reuters ID: LVAC75KZK2Z17MX5HXD3HVGGHPEG
- Story Text: An estimated 200,000 Salvadoreans urgently needed food
on Friday according to the UN's World Food Programme while
emergency workers continue their efforts to prevent the
outbreak of an epidemic of disease. El Salvador's President
Flores meanwhile is urging for collaborative and united
efforts to help the country and its people recover from last
week's devastating earthquake.
An estimated 200,000 Salvadoreans urgently needed food
on Friday (Jan 19) according to the United Nation's World Food
Programme (WFP) with relief workers begging the rest of the
world for more aid for the tiny Central American nation
devastated by a deadly earthquake last weekend.
A WFP representative, Guy Gaubreau told Reuters Television
that "We need to make an urgent call for more food for the
more isolated areas." The WFP has already distributed about
US$ 465,000 worth of food in the country.
Meanwhile, emergency workers said fear was growing of
epidemics of such diseases as cholera in scores of
increasingly overcrowded refugee camps and throughout peasant
villages in the mountains.
Highlighting the sanitation crisis, severed limbs decayed
amid tons of soil and debris at a garbage site in San Salvador
that scavengers picked through for jewellry and valuables.
Police officers in gas masks spread quicklime over the
site, where emergency workers had dumped tonnes of earth and
rubble from a deadly mudslide in Santa Tecla.
Rotting corpses and contaminated water were seen as
possible causes of epidemics. Only last month, dozens of
children died from a stomach virus that struck thousands of
people in this nation of 6.2 million.
The government estimates that the quake, El Salvador's
worst for a decade, has killed nearly 700 people and caused
US$1 billion in damage.
The opposition-dominated Congress approved spending about
US$200 million from this year's budget to cope with the
devastation, prompting the media to lambaste legislators for
snubbing President Francisco Flores' appeals in television
advertisements for the parties to act as "one team."
"We believe that one of the most important things in
managing a crisis is to have clear priorities and to divide
job tasks," said President Flores on Friday, adding that this
collaboration and cooperation also had to be in effect with
neighbouring countries. Venezuela and Mexico have already
worked with El Salvador to build an airlift and to rescue
trapped survivors.
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