A flood-affected woman in the tent city, established by the Sindh government in Karachi, while narrating the story of her grief, said that a girl died here due to dengue fever, but when they went to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) for helping in funeral, he scolded them and said “ throw the dead body in the street, don’t bother me.”
In the outskirts of Karachi, near the National Highway’s Toll Plaza, the Sindh government has established a makeshift tents city for the flood affectees, belong to different districts of interior Sindh. Thousands of flood-survivors are living a tough life there as the provincial government has failed to provide them basic facilities.
MM News team recently visited this tent city. During this visit, a number of flood victims while talking to MM News team said that the Sindh government brought them here with big claims. “We were told that every facility is available here, but when we came here we found that there is nothing here except tents, no facility exist here”, they added.
A flood affected person told MM News with tears in his eyes that the provincial government has not provided even clean drinking water in this tent city, while there is no medicine or doctor available for treatment.
An elderly person in the tent city said that the victims are facing a difficult situation due to the lack of facilities and unavailability of basic necessities. “No one has eaten their fill since they came here, children are hungry and crying all day long for food”, he added.
A woman said: “the situation is very bad, snakes and scorpions come out in the tents every day, which is spreading fear and panic among the people. There are no treatment facilities available, due to which the victims feel them insecure.”
A number of flood victims in the tent city complained that the Sindh government has only put up tents and left them completely helpless and at the mercy of the situation.
Informing MM News about their plight, some of the flood victims’ eyes became moist and some expressed deep anger and demanded that the Sindh government to provide them water and foods, and if the government cannot do so, then it should drop a bomb on them and kill them all, because it will be better do die than to live in this unimaginable bad condition.
Is should be noted that last month the Sindh government established a tent city in the outskirts of Karachi and claimed that all facilities will be provided to the flood-victims. However, despite the passage of several days, no facility is being provided by the government here. It seems that the Sindh government has set up this tent city only to collect aid from donors, so it has completely ignore the resident of this makeshift city.
