Baku-APA. The Portuguese government is preparing to send eight tons of medicine for flood victims in Mozambique, according to Portugal's Lusa news agency on Tuesday, APA reports.
The medicines, essentially for cholera, malaria among others, have been collected and stored in a warehouse in Montijo, south of capital Lisbon, before being transported by ship to Maputo, capital of Mozambique.
The medicine was donated by Portugal's pharmaceutical manufacturers while the aid shipment is being coordinated by Portugal's Ministry for Foreign Affairs with the help of the Ministry of Health.
President of the National Authority of Medicine and Health Products (INFARMED) Eurico Castro Alves said that further shipments of medicine could be organized quickly if needed.
"We are of course at the disposal of the Mozambican authorities, who will tell us if this aid is sufficient or not," he added.
Flood hit Mozambique in January this year as a result of strong tropical storms. Gaza province in the south of the country is the worst affected.
According to latest figures released by Mozambique's National Calamities Management Institute (INGC), the death toll from the flooding is now at 113. Some 240,000 people were displaced because of the river banks bursting, among whom 186,000 are still living in temporary shelters.
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