World / Over 47000 pregnant women affected by the floods in Pakistan are in shelter camps across Sindh province

After the floods in Pakistan, the situation will be very pathetic. So far more than 1200 people have died due to the floods that followed the torrential rains. Lakhs of people are forced to live in relief camps. The situation is such that in Sindh province alone more than 47000 pregnant women are taking shelter in shelter camps. Balochistan and Sindh provinces are the most affected by the floods.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 04, 2022, 06:09 PM

Pakistan : After the floods in Pakistan, the situation will be very pathetic. So far more than 1200 people have died due to the floods that followed the torrential rains. Lakhs of people are forced to live in relief camps. The situation is such that in Sindh province alone more than 47000 pregnant women are taking shelter in shelter camps. Balochistan and Sindh provinces are the most affected by the floods.

Local media on Sunday quoted the provincial health minister as saying that more than 47,000 pregnant women affected by floods in Pakistan are in shelter camps in Sindh province. Sindh Health Minister Azra Pechuho has shared the statistics of women affected by the floods. He said that after the floods thousands of people were found suffering from the disease.

Increase in cases of diarrhea and malaria

Dawn newspaper quoted the health minister as saying, there are more than 134,000 patients of diarrhea in the province and more than 44,000 cases of malaria have been reported. On 30 August the reproductive health agency of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said there are at least 650,000 pregnant women in flood-affected areas, of whom more than 73,000 are expected to deliver this month, are severely affected and He needs healthcare.

Most cases of skin infection

According to the Dawn newspaper report, Pechuho further said that so far more than 100,000 skin-related, 101 snake bites and 500 dog bites have been reported among the flood-affected. The UN agency also warned that many women and girls were at increased risk of gender-based violence (GBV) as nearly one million homes have been damaged in the floods.

33 million people affected due to floods

Pakistan has faced terrible floods this year. Around 33 million people have been affected in the country. More than 500,000 people are currently living in relief camps in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Punjab. According to a report released by the health authorities on Saturday, over 134,000 diarrhea cases have been reported from Sindh in the last two months.