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WHO warns of increasing public health risks in flood-affected Pakistan

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
November 2, 2022

WASHINGTON: The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that public health risks are increasing in flood-affected areas of Pakistan, driven by damaged infrastructure, stagnant water and inadequate sanitation facilities.

The WHO said that although flood waters had continued to recede in many flood-affected areas across Pakistan in recent weeks, around eight million people need essential health assistance.

WHO Regional Emergency Director Dr. Richard Brennan said that the catastrophe had pushed the country to the brink and that diseases are rampant.

He said a food crisis is looming, the economy is deteriorating, and winter is fast approaching. The eight million flood-affected people who need health assistance require essential medical supplies and access to essential healthcare.

Dr. Brennan said that humanitarian agencies face an uphill battle adding that “enormous volumes of persistent flood waters, in particular, have provided breeding sites for mosquitos, resulting in an ongoing malaria outbreak in 32 districts.”

“From July to early October 2022, over 540,000 malaria cases have been reported. Other health threats include increasing cases of diarrheal diseases, an ongoing dengue fever outbreak, measles and diphtheria,” he said.

He said that among the biggest concerns were high rates of severe acute malnutrition.

“Access to safe water and sanitation remains limited, with people using contaminated water for household consumption. Pregnant women need access to clean and safe delivery services,” Dr. Brennan said.

WHO expressed concern that, in the context of multiple other competing demands, the international response has not risen to the urgent needs of flood-affected communities.

More than $81.5 million is needed to respond to the health crisis in flood-affected areas of Pakistan to ensure coordinated delivery of essential healthcare services, efficient management of severe acute malnutrition, and stronger outbreak detection, and control.

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With the funds available, WHO explained that it is acting quickly to protect health and to deliver essential services, especially for those displaced by the floods, through static and mobile health camps.

To date, medicines and emergency supplies worth $1.5 million have been distributed while over $6 million worth of supplies are in the pipeline.

Efforts have been scaled up to prevent and control disease outbreaks, including strengthening surveillance, undertaking vaccination campaigns against measles and cholera, ensuring early diagnosis and treatment or malaria, and providing access to clean water.

In addition, 10 Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs) and three operational hubs have been established in Sukkur, Hyderabad and Naseerabad districts.

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