Dr. Hafi Urges UN Establishments for Serious Actions To Save Tsunami Areas Poor Babies
The CRRA survey has capitulated three important factors which can crucially emancipate to multiple disabilities among the newly born babies and those below 5 years in ‘Tsunami Refugees Camps’.
(PRWEB) September 21, 2005
In the corollary response of Tsunami catastrophic devastation, Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi, an independent world famed epidemiological researcher of Pakistan, devised a completely objective-oriented plan consisting on two phases, i. e. ‘child retardation risk’ assessment [CRRA-project] and ‘child retardation risk management’ [CRRM-project]. The first phase i. e. CRRA project was devised to determine, the prospects of different types of physical and mental disabilities among the children below five years, the newly born and the unborn babies, as well.
During the survey, instead of collecting the required data from readily available municipal resources, i. e. hospitals, community health centers and other civil services offices, actual and direct surveys were carried out in refugees camps in the remote and hard-hit areas of Sri Lanka. Personal interviews from individuals, families, camp leaders, and other available responsible persons were made from district Hikkadua to dist. Ampara including Hambantota, Galle and Kalmunai districts.
The survey capitulated three important factors which can crucially emancipate to multiple disabilities among the newly born babies and those below 5 years in ‘Tsunami Refugees Camps’.
1.Toxoplasmosis:
High susceptibilities for the severe likelihood of ‘toxoplasmosis’ have been found in the camps and temporary shelters of Tsunami refugees, indicated by [CRRA] epidemiological survey.
“Due to the presence of multiple toxic pollutants and the rigorously unhygienic atmosphere of most of the Tsunami refugees’ camps, the likelihood of Toxoplasmosis is probable to boost exponentially” warns Dr. Aurangzrb Hafi, the chief investigator of the Tsunami First Epidemiological CRRA Survey.
Toxoplasmosis is a mild infection that cause cold like symptoms or usually no symptoms in adults but can be horribly hazardous for small and unborn babies. As far as the matter of children below 5 years or the unborns is concerned, it can dangerously cause possible brain defects, eye imperfections and premature childbirth. Till the present moment no precautionary measures have been taken so far to control this serious matter.
Over accommodation of families as per capacity plus number of temporary shelters along with the severely contaminated water and the extremely unhygienic atmosphere of refugees camps are the exceedingly rising key-factors being responsible to increase the receptiveness for the articulated harsh danger.
2.Mal-nutrition:
Relatively altered nutrition in post disaster situation is one of the major causes of hypo-vitaminosis, which may lead to structural as well as functional abnormalities, specially in the children below 5. Children in Tsunami refugeesÂ’ camps are being poorly nourished and are becoming emaciated. The importance of adequate energy depends upon both, quantitative (in form of certain fruits and vegetables etc.) and qualitative (in form of food supplements and multimineral-multivitamin tablets/syrups etc.). Due to, on one hand, severely altered quantitative daily nutrition, and on the other hand, unavailability of qualitative forms of nutritional intakes can result in serious multiple mal-nutrition, which is a universally recognized important cause of physical as well as mental retardation.
3.Mal-absorption:
In addition to, and logically next to mal-nutrition, the second important factor, often and largely involved in post disasters serious health problems, which is usually ignored in disaster management programs, and is one of the major responsible factor for fundamental and complex chemical structural and functional disabilities, is mal-absorption.
Impaired absorption of water, electrolytes and minerals, which is often likely to be occurred in such disasters, causes impaired formation of Micelle + C complex, which in turn results in multiple mal-absorption, a complex mechanical abnormality.
The presence of either both types of deficiencies, or any one of the above mentioned factors can seriously affect the C. M.I. (cell mediated immunity) leading to pathological complications in small babies, specially in those below one year.
The TsunamiÂ’s CRRA Survey has provided a core nucleus, on which response coordination can be built. It has provided important and major issues to be raised up and dealt with.
The findings of [CRRA] survey along with the expounded connotations made by the epidemiological researcher, have been made available to conscientious international agencies for further actions to be taken upon.
The concerned UN establishments, specially The World Health Organization and UNICEF along with other conscientious international agencies are asked for and looked upon accordingly, to take sufficiently serious notice of the situation, urges DR. HAFI of Pakistan, the prime epidemiological researcher of the Post Tsunami state of affairs.
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