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Two months after the disaster that killed more than 8,500 people and left thousands injured and homeless, Chapagaun, which lies half an hour’s drive from Kathmandu, remains a village trapped in an anxious limbo. Many of the houses that withstood the quake and the dozens of aftershocks that have followed are too badly cracked to be habitable and their owners too fearful to set foot in them. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Thursday that some 2.8 million of the Nepalese affected by a devastating earthquake continue to need vital humanitarian assistance two months after the quake. "Despite the needs, only 36 percent of the 422 million (US) dollars requested for humanitarian assistance has been received so far," Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also called on all partners to work together towards the early recovery and reconstruction of Nepal's health care systems, Haq said. "The agency warns that the health of people who survived the earthquakes could be at risk if we do not prioritize efforts to rebuild and restore regular health services."
