2023-09-15 14:03:41
MADRID, 15 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United Nations has affirmed this Friday that the Government of Morocco could present “today or tomorrow” a request for help to respond to the needs of survivors of the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the open Richter scale that shook the country last week. passed, leaving nearly 3,000 dead and more than 5,000 injured.
“We hope and hope that, as a result of our discussions with the Moroccan authorities, that your request for help will arrive today or tomorrow, very soon,” said the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, who has highlighted during an appearance in the Swiss city of Geneva that the organization “is awaiting” the request.
Thus, he explained that “in the first days (after a natural disaster) the focus is, appropriately, on locating survivors and those who have not survived,” while “the next phase is providing aid to survivors as shelter.” , food and medical supplies to address health problems. “I hope that in Morocco we advance from one stage to the other,” she argued.
“They themselves have said that their help to the survivors is a priority,” he highlighted, while adding that “the signs are very good” for the authorities to issue this request for help to the UN. “You can be sure that we will be prepared,” said Griffiths, who noted that he is in talks with Rabat to this end.
On Thursday, King Mohamed VI chaired a working meeting at the Royal Palace to activate the emergency program for the relocation of victims of the earthquake, which had its epicenter in the province of Al Haouz, in the High Atlas region. The program consists of both the urgent temporary relocation of those affected and the granting of emergency aid of up to 30,000 dirhams (more than 2,700 euros) to affected families.
In the face of the tragedy, the international community has offered humanitarian aid, although Rabat has only accepted aid from a few countries, including Spain. Mohamed VI, for his part, has been absent during the first days after the event. On Tuesday he appeared for the first time in public during a visit to a Marrakech hospital where hundreds of wounded people are recovering.
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