Photo courtesy of UN News As Sri Lanka currently counts human and economic costs of Cyclone Ditwah, the images are both disturbing and somewhat familiar: flooded hospitals, access roads buried by landslides, evacuation centres overflowing with displaced families and officials in health and disaster management services scrambling to meet everyone’s needs. The death toll is at 355 and rising, with hundreds more missing and over 200,000 displaced, with effects being borne disproportionately in the central hills and low lying river basins across the country. It has once again placed the spotlight on the preparedness of our disaster response ecosystem and with climate-related…
After Cyclone Ditwah: Climate Proofing Sri Lanka’s Health System
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