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Séisme au Venezuela : ‘Les gens sont encore terrifiés à l'idée de rentrer dans ce qui était leur maison’
Les agences d'aide ont souligné vendredi les besoins énormes à travers le Venezuela causés par une double catastrophe sismique qui a tué au moins 235 personnes jusqu'à présent, avec la recherche et le sauvetage des personnes piégées sous les décombres toujours comme priorité absolue.
Au total, jusqu'à 6,8 millions de personnes pourraient être touchées par l'urgence de mercredi, selon les dernières projections de population et de dommages disponibles, selon l'agence des Nations Unies pour les migrations, l'OIM.
Plus de 41 000 personnes ont également été signalées disparues via un portail en ligne.
Et au milieu des rapports indiquant que les secouristes creusent à mains nues dans certains centres touchés par le séisme, les gens “sont encore terrifiés à l'idée de rentrer dans ce qui était leur maison ou d'autres structures” et ont besoin d'aide, a rapporté la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR), partenaire de l'ONU.
Les séismes, mesurant 7,2 et 7,5 sur l'échelle de Richter, ont principalement touché le district de la capitale Caracas et les États de Miranda, Carabobo, Yaracuy et La Guaira.
“Les gens ont tout laissé derrière eux et rien ne fonctionne comme il se doit ou comme cela a été le cas dans ces zones. Et donc, assurer que les gens puissent littéralement survivre avec ces éléments essentiels est notre priorité sur le terrain,” a déclaré Loyce Pace, porte-parole de la FICR, Directrice régionale pour les Amériques, aux journalistes à Genève, via vidéo depuis Panama City.
De nombreux besoins médicaux sont critiques. “La priorité absolue est de fournir d'urgence des soins de santé vitaux et de sauver autant de personnes que possible, car les premières heures, comme vous le savez, sont cruciales pour sauver des vies,” a déclaré le Dr Ciro Ugarte, Directeur des urgences sanitaires pour l'Organisation panaméricaine de la santé (OPS), le Bureau régional de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) des Nations Unies.
Le Dr Ugarte a décrit des équipes médicales sous pression pour trier les victimes en masse et fournir des soins de traumatologie pour les fractures, les brûlures et d'autres blessures associées à l'effondrement des bâtiments, en particulier dans les zones où les opérations de recherche et de sauvetage sont en cours.
Le médecin principal a noté en outre que l'accès reste “très difficile” pour toutes les équipes travaillant sur le terrain et particulièrement celles du secteur de la santé, rendant difficile une évaluation approfondie de la situation. "Nous avons du mal à atteindre tous ces établissements de santé," a-t-il expliqué.
En plus des soins médicaux d'urgence, les personnes “qui ont tout perdu” ont besoin d'un abri temporaire, d'eau potable, d'assainissement, de soins de santé, de protection et d'articles de secours essentiels, a déclaré Zoe Brennan de l'agence des migrations de l'ONU, l'OIM. Plus tard, la reprise devra être soutenue “pour aider les familles à reconstruire leurs maisons, à restaurer leurs moyens de subsistance et à se rétablir avec dignité”, a-t-elle insisté.
Les agences d'aide ont souligné comment les séismes ont frappé un pays déjà vulnérable ; des millions de nationaux vivent à l'étranger après avoir échappé à une crise économique de longue date et à des violations des droits de l'homme qui font l'objet d'une enquête en cours du Conseil des droits de l'homme.
Confirmant une coupure d'internet au Venezuela, le bureau des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, le HCDH, a déclaré que “les restrictions préexistantes” restaient en place dans les premières heures après les séismes.
“Nous appelons, comme nous l'avons déjà fait, à adopter des mesures pour protéger l'espace numérique et garantir le droit à l'information et à la liberté d'expression et l'accès aux médias numériques au Venezuela,” a déclaré Marta Hurtado, porte-parole du HCDH.
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Responding to a question about whether the changing global water cycle might have contributed to the deadly Nepal-China flooding disaster, Ms. Saulo explained that melting ice and rock was just one factor in the chain of events that ultimately sent a massive and deadly wall of water and debris downstream on 26 August, killing at least 1,367 people.
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The report does not attribute every observed change to climate change alone. WMO says pressure on water resources and natural variability also contribute.
Mr. Jenkinson said governments need to prepare for “moving baselines” as historical patterns become less reliable.
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