At least 21000 families affected by colda
At least 21,000 families affected by cold and drought in Bolivia.
La Paz, July 27 .- At least 21,000 families have been affected by the wave of cold and drought in Bolivia in recent weeks, government sources said.
Rural Development Deputy Minister, Victor Hugo Vazquez, told that is the number of affected households in the country by the problems caused by climate also threaten to 6,500 cattle by drought or frost.
, crimecraft cash, Civil Dnse Deputy, Hernan Tuco, told the media that in addition to the 21,000 affected families are also at risk of camelids 5500 West of the country due to low temperatures.
The Executive has ten million dollars to address these emergencies will be discussed in a National Council for the Reduction of Disaster Risks and Attention, buy aion kinah, to next week assessing damage to agricultural crops and livestock.
The cold wave that hit Bolivia in previous days also killed thousands of fish last week in Pirai and Grande rivers and lagoons and Sebora Spain, the eastern region of Santa Cruz, reported the newspaper El Deber.
According to the Interior da Santa Cruz, has so, ffxiv gil, far registered over 40,000 dead fish in four miles of the tributaries of those rivers, although it is expected a full report on the situation in four rivers in the northern Santa Cruz.
In days past, authorities have also reported the deaths of 23 people in Bolivia because of the cold spell that hit the Southern Cone, mostly indigent who died from hypothermia.
Two other people died poisoned by inhaling carbon monoxide while trying to warm in the south of the country, and two children were killed over the weekend when the roof of a stadium collapsed on them by the weight of snow.
Health authorities reported that increased respiratory diseases and also that there have been cases of H1N1 flu that nearly doubled in the last few days, going from 17 to 31 last Friday until Monday.
The head of the Influenza Program of the Ministry of Health, Rene Lenis, media reported today that La Paz is the region with the greatest number of people infected with this virus, with 22, followed by Santa Cruz, with six, Beni, with two and Cochabamba with a case.