Russian Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft bring approx. 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid to flood-stricken Primorye areas
VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 19 (Interfax) - Rescuers from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry continue to deliver humanitarian aid to flood-stricken areas of the Primorye territory, the press service of the ministry's Far Eastern regional center said.
"Approximately 27 tonnes of cargo were supplied to inundated populated localities in the past 24 hours. In all, aircraft of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry have performed 451 flights, have airlifted 2,490 persons, have evacuated 866 flood victims, including 162 children and 17 sick people, and have delivered more than 435 tonnes of freight to the flood zone since the moment the flooding started," the report said.
The planes mostly delivered drinking water, food, essential goods, warm clothes, fan heaters, light towers and other necessities, it said.
The sanitary-epidemiological conditions have been stable, it said. People who found themselves within the flood zone are being inoculated. In all, doctors have inoculated over 142,000 persons against hepatitis A, typhoid fever, dysentery and flu.
A task force comprising of 18,900 persons and 1,500 pieces of hardware, including 157 boats, was deployed to clean up the cyclone aftermath in the territory. These include 5,600 men and pieces of hardware, including 149 boats, assigned by the Emergency Situations Ministry.
The aviation component consists of nine aircraft and four drones.
The Primorye territory is recovering from a typhoon, during which a three-month norm of precipitation has fallen in the region. A federal-level emergency situation regime has been put into place. After Typhoon Lionrock, the region was stricken by another typhoon, Namtheum, and heavy rains.