Source: CCTV News Client of China Central Radio and Television Corporation
Editor: Han Jitao
The UN agency warned on September 18 that an infectious disease outbreak in Libya could become a "second wave of devastating crisis." UN agencies and Libyan authorities are taking steps to prevent outbreaks.
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The United Nations Support Mission in Libya issued a statement on the 18th, saying that after the floods in Libya, the local drinking water source was polluted, coupled with poor sanitation, which worries the spread of disease. Nine UN agencies are working together to prevent outbreaks in the affected areas.
Libyan health official Haider Saeyh revealed in an interview with the media on the 16th that in the hardest-hit eastern city of Derna, at least 150 people have diarrhea due to drinking contaminated water, including 55 children.
In order to prevent the outbreak of infectious diseases after the disaster, the city of Derna has carried out large-scale sanitize work in recent days and organized vaccination of local people.
Libyan environment official Abkar: sanitize campaign has been going on for six days. After the floods, we began sanitation sanitize on streets, places of worship, temporary settlements and morgues, as well as inspected and disinfected unaffected areas.
On the 18th, the medical waste cleaning organization of Derna City introduced that the local post-disaster health and epidemic prevention situation has been controlled. However, due to the limited medical staff and their difficulty in effectively controlling the source of infection, Derna still faces the risk of large-scale transmission of the epidemic after the disaster.
Faisal, head of the local medical waste clean-up organization: The shortage of medical personnel has caused a crisis, and there are currently three or four organizations that are providing medical treatment to the injured, which has led to problems in infection control. If not effectively controlled, it will cause the possibility of disease transmission and produce some bacteria that are difficult to deal with.
The root cause of Libyan suffering lies in Western intervention
Who is to blame for the disaster in Libya? In similar discussions, a key point in the discussion has been repeatedly mentioned: 2011, the year that the United States and other Western countries intervened in Libya to overthrow the Qaddafi regime, plunging the formerly wealthy North African country into long-term chaos and turmoil.
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The British "Declassify Britain" website asked on the 15th: Why did the (Western) media not report the full picture of the Libyan flood?
The British mainstream media coverage of the floods in Libya is characterized by terms such as "dysfunction," "chaos," "instability" and "fragmentation," and analysts in these media like to refer to Libya as a failed state. But British and other Western media have been careful not to talk about what is causing Libya's situation. In 2011, under the guise of so-called "humanitarian intervention," Western countries launched military operations against Libya to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. However, NATO never really cared about the well-being of Libyans, and the power vacuum soon attracted a flood of violent and extremist groups.
This pattern of Western behavior has been repeated in Libya, Iraq and Syria, and the reason why this pattern is repeated is because the West, led by the United States, seeks complete global hegemony, complete control of resources, or to achieve what some Western politicians call "all-round dominance."
When the United States and NATO target oil-rich leaders in West Asia and North Africa, such as Gaddafi and Saddam, the so-called "humanitarianism" is just a cover to appease Western populations. Western countries are targeting only the oil resources of these countries. As it has done with Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, the West has treated Libya by preferring to leave it mired in division and instability rather than allow a powerful leader to control resources and forge alliances with countries the West doesn't like.
The article concluded that when Gaddafi was killed on the street, the bloody images spread around the world. By contrast, the suffering of ordinary Libyans over the past decade or so is out of sight. Now, with the disaster in Derna, the plight of Libyans is in the spotlight. But under Western media reports, the cause of their suffering remains unidentified.
Regarding the floods in Libya, some netizens said, "Every Libyan who died in this flood has put more blood on NATO's hands." In 2011, NATO destroyed Libya, destroyed its infrastructure and overthrew its leaders. When U.S. and European warplanes killed thousands of Libyans in airstrikes, officials did not pray for Libyans. ”
"The hegemonic barbarians of the West destroyed Libya and handed the country over to al-Qaeda and extremist groups. And they did so so that they could steal Libya's oil resources. ”