June 10- 16 , 2012
WHO Emergency Humanitarian Program Situation Report Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA Week 24 Date: June 10- 16 , 2012 1. Situation around IDP hosting districts A: Situation in “Jalozai” IDP camp, Nowshera district WHO along with health cluster partners, UNICEF and provincial health authorities lead the emergency health response for the displaced IDPs in Jalozai camp and IDPs living in host communities of district Nowshera. Population: Till 17th June, 2012 total IDPs families living in camp and off camp are 66,847 with 309,165 individuals. Jalozai IDP camp hosts 11,867 families with 57,531 individuals. 55,122 families are living in off camp with 252,269 individuals. Alerts and Consultations: WHO received and responded one alert of suspected Measles. There were 3,171 consultations provided through health care provider, including acute respiratory infection (17% or 539 cases), acute diarrhea (8% or 241 cases), skin infection (1.5% or 47 cases) and suspected malaria (3.2% or 103 cases). Coordination: Health & WASH cluster meetings take place once a week on every Wednesday in Jalozai attended by partners from health (Merlin, CAMP, CERD, FATA Health, GiZ, AGEG, IR, CTC, UNICEF), WASH, Nutrition, Food and CCM clusters working in the camp where issues are discussed and decisions are taken on the spot to address any loop holes in the health response for containment and control of disease outbreaks in the camp. The twenty eighth Camp Health Cluster meeting of Jalozai IDP Camp was held on Wednesday, June, 13th, 2012, in J-3 Health Post of Merlin. The meeting was jointly chaired by DHS FATA and WHO.
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