UNHCR sends flood relief supplies to Libya

TRIPOLI, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday it had sent relief supplies to Libya to aid its response to the deadly floods that swept its eastern region.

In the past two days, the UNHCR has delivered essential medicine to treat over 10,000 patients at the field hospital in Derna, the city hardest hit by the floods, and given two rub halls and two generators to a hospital and an emergency room of Libya's Health Ministry to help them better respond to emergencies, according to a UNHCR statement.