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Relief Activities of DPRK Red Cross Society

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- The DPRK Red Cross Society is intensifying relief activities to heal the flood damage and to stabilize the people's life in the flood-stricken areas.
    The society dispatched emergency relief groups to the affected areas. And it helps supplying emergency relief goods to the inhabitants on the spot in the areas in close contact with its provincial branches.
    The South Hamgyong Provincial Red Cross Branch has investigated in detail the losses in various places including Jongphyong, Kumya, Kowon counties hit hardest by the flood and taken necessary measures. It also called upon the Red Cross volunteers in the province to turn out in the emergency relief activities for the victims.
    Lots of residents and more than 2,300 volunteers in the province are taking part in the activities.
    The Kangwon Provincial Red Cross Branch handed over a large amount of tents, blankets, kitchen utensils and other emergency relief goods which had been kept in the store against disaster to inhabitants in the flood-affected Hoeyang, Kumgang, Ichon and other counties.
    The South Phyongan, North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae Provincial Red Cross branches set up first-aid treatment stations in different parts of the damaged areas to give medical services to the wounded and the people who are suffering from the contaminated water.
    The DPRK Red Cross Society, in collaboration with the members of the delegation of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to the DPRK, is scrupulously organizing the transportation and distribution of the relief goods so that they are provided to the victims in time, while striving hard to solve problems arising in the work as early as possible.