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• Estimated 3,694 HHs (22,164 Individuals) are severely impacted by floods with limited access to farmlands, schools, health facility, as well as movements within homesteads.
• About 160 HHs (960 Individuals) reportedly displaced, integrated, & sheltering with relatives and friends. Majority of whom have no proper shelter, sleeping mats, blankets etc. Children, pregnant women, and elderly are at high risks of contracting pneumonia, malaria and cold.
• Water borne disease on increase- Malaria cases tripled in one week, including respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and acute watery diarrhea, yet limited drugs at health facilities.
• Some severely affected households whose houses collapsed and lost properties during the floods remained extremely vulnerable and are in urgent need of food assistance.
• Estimated 2,955 feddans of crops planted in the lowland/swampy areas in late June were severely affected by floods, as seen around homesteads, Sorghum, Sesame & maize are deeply submerged in water and turned yellowish(scotched). The losses are estimated at about 70-80%.
• However, highland areas have not been affected (crops performance is very good) and expecting good harvests due in August/Sept.
• Water sources have been flooded and the affected communities drinking from unprotected surface water and small hand dug wells. Majority of boreholes are not functioning, and the few functioning are overcrowded. In addition, no water treatment tabs and water containers for fetching clean water from far distance.
• Women & girls at high risks of GBV and other protection issues, as they travel long distances (higher grounds) to collect water & firewood. Some children drowned and died in floods as they tried to crossed streams for many reasons (accessing schools, health facilities etc).
• Accessibility to schools, health facilities during emergency referrals constrained. A good number of school-going children remained absent from school for fear of drowning in water.
• Inaccessibility of five Nutrition static sites and six RRM is are accessible which hinder the current nutrition services provision • Most of the Nutrition site source of water mainly bore whole were submerged and there is no potable water for drinking in most of the nutrition sites