Extreme cold in Chile
26 August 2011
Travel Health Advice for those travelling to or working in Chile...
Around 25,000 people have been affected by extremely low temperatures in the Bío-Bío and Araucanía regions of southern Chile. Snowstorms and extremely low temperatures have affected thousands of Mapuches and Pehuenhue indigenous familes who have been completely cut off by the severe weather. Key transport routes have been blocked by the heaviest snowfalls the country has experienced in over 30 years, which is delaying the distribution of emergency relief to the families affected.
The European Commission has just agreed a donation of €60,000 to assist the Chilean Red Cross to assist families affected by the severe weather. The snow drifts reached a height of up to 2.5 metres causing power cuts, loss of communication services, water shortages where pipes have frozen, delays in the supply of food, medicines and fuel and caused structural damage to some buildings. Many farm animals have died in the cold as temperatures reached a low of -23°C.
For further information click on the following links:
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Keeping warm in cold or mountainous areas
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Altitude sickness
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Chile country profile
Sources: BBC News online, Relief Web
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