Two million sick from Pakistan floods
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Pastor Dale Morgan
Sep 22, 2011, 9:07:51 PM9/22/11
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Two million sick from Pakistan floods
* From correspondents in Islamabad
* From: AFP
* September 23, 2011 5:17AM
TWO million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several metres of water, the country's disaster authority says.
More than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been affected this year by floods that officials 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 among the health problems facing two million people across 23 Sindh districts, said Irshad Bhatti, spokesman of National Disaster Management Authority.
"In some areas, diseases also spread out because of dead animals but there is no major break-out of any epidemic," Mr Bhatti said, calling for the donation of mosquito nets and medicines to help the aid effort.
The World Health Organization has said that there is a desperate shortage of clean drinking water in the south, which has also triggered outbreaks of acute diarrhoea and other waterborne disease.
The UN's children agency has pledged to distribute 200,000 litres of water to 40,000 people daily and deploy 40 more water tankers soon, to avert further disease.
Two million sick from Pakistan floods
* From correspondents in Islamabad
* From: AFP
* September 23, 2011 5:17AM
TWO million Pakistanis have fallen ill from diseases since monsoon rains left the southern region under several metres of water, the country's disaster authority says.
More than 350 people have been killed and over eight million people have been affected this year by floods that officials 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 among the health problems facing two million people across 23 Sindh districts, said Irshad Bhatti, spokesman of National Disaster Management Authority.
"In some areas, diseases also spread out because of dead animals but there is no major break-out of any epidemic," Mr Bhatti said, calling for the donation of mosquito nets and medicines to help the aid effort.
The World Health Organization has said that there is a desperate shortage of clean drinking water in the south, which has also triggered outbreaks of acute diarrhoea and other waterborne disease.
The UN's children agency has pledged to distribute 200,000 litres of water to 40,000 people daily and deploy 40 more water tankers soon, to avert further disease.
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