Western Region Drought Response Humanitarian Situation Report #2 (30 September 2018)
Publisher: UNICEF
Date: 2018
Topics: Gender, Humanitarian Assistance, Renewable Resources
Countries: Afghanistan
The total number of registered IDPs both inBadghis and Heratremained stable in the last few weeks, with 15,560 families (95,365 individuals) reportedly in Badghis, and 11,954 families (83,678 individuals) registered in Herat IDP sites. In late September, the Afghan National Disaster Management Agency (ANDMA) in Herat, received petitions from 12,000 families as new arrivals. These new arrivals have settled among previous IDPs in the various sites and are receiving assistance in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health/nutrition as they await registration to receive food, cash and NFIs. The situation of shelter and food remains a critical gap. A major concern is IDPs sites in Badghis, which are located on dry river beds and prone to flash flooding risk in the fast approaching rainy and winter season. As such, the poor shelters combined with cold nights, windy and dusty conditions in the IDPs sites exposes children, especially the very young to the risk of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs). As per mobile health teams (MHTs) registration data, in Herat number of ARI cases reduced from 1,176 cases in August to 817 cases in September however, in Badghis 18% of referred patients are ARI cases. As a result of scale up in WASH response number of diarrhoea decreased from 720 cases in August to 602 cases in September 2018.