The "humanitarian organisations in Nepal are facing a race against time to ensure delivery of urgently required supplies such as food and shelter materials to these high altitude areas that will soon be cut off with the onset of winter," the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal, Jamie Mcgoldrick said in a statement yesterday.
"The onset of winter in Nepal is projected to have an adverse impact on earthquake-affected communities living in high-altitude isolated areas," it said.
According to the UN coordinator, 80 per cent of the supplies are warehoused in the districts, but acute shortages in fuel supplies continue to impede planned deliveries to affected villages and trailheads for onward transportation using mules and porters.
"It is of critical importance to deliver supplies to the trailheads by end of October as the passes in the Himalayas will be at increased risk of being blocked by snowfall."
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