Two million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases because monsoon rains left the southern region under several feet of water, the country's disaster authority said Thursday additional than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been precious this year by floods that official say are worse in parts of Sindh province than last year, when the country saw its worst ever disaster.
Malaria, diarrhoea, skin disease and snake bites were between the health problems facing two million public across 23 Sindh districts, said Irshad Bhatti, spokesman of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
"In some areas, diseases also spread out because of dead animals but there is no main break-out of any epidemic," Bhatti added, calling for the donation of mosquito nets and medicine to help the aid effort the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is a anxious shortage of clean drinking water in the south which has also trigger outbreak of acute diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases.
No comments:
Post a Comment