Pakistan Update: 14 Million Affected as Rains Continue

MAP is responding with shipments of medicines and supplies to the region

MEHMOOD KOT, Pakistan - The latest government figures indicate that over 14 million people have been hit by Pakistan's worst floods in generations.  Additionally, over 1200 have died as rains are continuing to fall over the northern parts of the country.

After almost four weeks of rains that have caused flooding throughout the countryside, washing away villages and farms, there is now an urgent need to scale up the response in Punjab and Sindh provinces, Pakistan's most populous regions. 

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs now estimates that up to 6 million people are in need of food assistance and other basic supplies.

Disease outbreak and basic medical care remain significant concerns for the relief effort. Specifically, waterborn diseases are a concern as there have already been 36,000 suspected cases of potentially fatal acute watery diarrhea... Read More

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Flooding in Pakistan Worst in 80 Years

MEHMOOD KOT, Pakistan - More than four million people have been hit by Pakistan's worst floods in generations.  Thousands of survivors waded through flood waters or loaded into any available vehicle to escape villages in the path of the deluge. 

After two weeks of rains that have caused flooding throughout the countryside, washing away villages and farms, the disaster is spreading into Pakistan's most populous provinces of Punjab and Sindh.  

 "Altogether, more than four million people are in a way or another affected," said Manuel Bessler, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Pakistan.

 The UN World Food Program says 80 percent of food reserves have been destroyed in the flooding which means that the aftermath if the flooding will bring a new crisis as the ravaged country tries to feeds it people. 

According to a report from Agence France-Presse, an international relief campaign is stepping up including a 10-million-dollar aid package from the United States. Read more...

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