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A senior United Nations official in Sierra Leone, Alan Doss, has pledged that the organisation will strive to boost the resources available at refugee camps near the country's border with Liberia, a UN news release said on Wednesday.
Doss, who is the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Deputy Special Representative for Sierra Leone, toured two camps in the area during an assessment mission on Tuesday, during which he said he would look into the concerns of the refugees and host communities alike.
"My coming here is a sign of the United Nations' concern for your welfare," he told the refugees. "We will do our best to help solve some of your problems, but we need your cooperation."
During his visit to Jimi Gbagbo camp, Doss was told that health facilities were inadequate for more than 6,000 camp residents there. At Taiama camp, home to more than 7,000 refugees, aid workers lacked adequate resources to tackle the problem of malaria, he was told.
Doss was accompanied on his assessment mission by officials from the UN Mission in Sierra Leone, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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