Of these, 46% reported that medication was interrupted as a result of OM (19 people).
The most common length of time without medication was 3 to 6 months
However, 16% reported having never been able to resume medication
Chart x: respondents reporting losses during OM
Deaths attributed to OM
One wife reported the death of her husband after six months without his chronic
medication, which she attributes directly to the lack of medication.
One mother shockingly reported the death of her child, killed in the process of her
home being demolished.
2. Impact on education
56% of respondents reported having school age children in school at the time of OM.
71% of these reported interruption to schooling as a result of OM (47 out of 66
families).
Of those families where children dropped out of school for any length of time, 28% suffered
severe disruption, meaning the loss of a year or more of schooling as a result of OM. Of these,
half (14% of all children who lost schooling) lost up to three years of schooling, or dropped
out of school permanently.
A further 29% of families had children who lost between three and twelve months of
schooling, which could be considered sufficient to have caused them to have to repeat the
year.
Apart from the loss of accommodation, respondents reported the following losses during the
demolitions.
A disastrous 62% reported loss of their immediate livelihood, with all respondents
reporting other types of material loss.
Respondents reported loss of: personal documents; livestock; building materials; tools;
business premises; memorabilia, among many, many other losses, including
‘everything’.
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