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Humanitarian partners, including OCHA, focus on search-and-rescue and prepositioned kits
Summary
An agency official said search-and-rescue is the immediate priority and that emergency kits have been prepositioned; humanitarian partners are already in the field and coordination includes meetings with the foreign affairs minister and emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher.
Humanitarian partners have mobilized in the field after the quake, focused primarily on search-and-rescue operations and immediate life-saving assistance, an agency official said.
"Their main operation right now is search and rescue," the official said, and added that emergency kits have already been prepositioned to support initial relief efforts. The official also described coordination with the foreign affairs minister and emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher as part of the humanitarian country team response.
The official listed priority sectors — shelter, health, food security and protection — and said partners on the ground are responding to those needs as they are identified.
