AFRICA: LIBYA: FOREIGNERS IN HOSPITALS- LOCALS LOCKED IN HOMES

Agenzia Fides REPORT - "In the healthcare facilities that we contacted this morning, foreign workers, in particular Filipinos, are doing the whole job alone: recording, taking care and feeding patients, everything is in their hands. The Libyans did not go to work", sources of the Apostolic Vicariate from Tripoli tell Fides. "But there are also volunteers who help treat the wounded - our interlocutor continues -. These people are doing their best under difficult conditions, also because stocks of drugs and other medical products are being depleted", continues the interlocutor.
With regards to the situation in Tripoli, the sources of the Vicariate inform that "most of the population is locked up in the house, because everyone is afraid to go out. However, electricity is back, but everyone remains to await developments".
According to agency sources, the men who have remained loyal to Gaddafi are concentrated in two districts of Tripoli, while the rest of the city is in the hands of the Transitional National Council (TNC) fighters. The situation is however still far from being considered stabilized, as demonstrated by the kidnapping of 4 Italian journalists, who are believed to be in the hands of a pro Gaddafi group. (L.M.)

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