Pakistan doctors treat sick flood evacuees, water-borne diseases climb

Record ID: 1688958

  • Title: Pakistan doctors treat sick flood evacuees, water-borne diseases climb
  • Date: 14th September 2022
  • Summary: TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN (SEPTEMBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE FOOTAGE OF CAMP FOR FLOOD-DISPLACED PEOPLE SET UP OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL BUILDING VARIOUS OF DOCTORS EXAMINING CHILDREN BABY VARIOUS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT THE TENT HOSPITAL WOMAN CARRYING CHILD COLLECTING MEDICATION MEDICINE DOCTOR HANDING PRESCRIPTION TO MAN, WOMAN WITH CHILD SITTING (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) DOCTOR AT TENT HOSPITAL, ZEESHAN UL-HAQ, SAYING: “This is a season for mosquitoes to grow in (stagnant) water. Also, September and October are months when we receive a lot of malaria and dengue cases due to mosquitoes, that is why we are receiving many cases of malaria at these camps for flood victims. Also, we are receiving a lot of cases of diarrhoea because of the heat and food indigestion. Also, it is the season for colds and coughs, so we are also receiving those patients.” WOMEN AND CHILDREN INSIDE THE BUILDING CHILD IN HAMMOCK MEN FANNING FLIES AWAY FLIES ON FLOOR PEOPLE WALKING OUTSIDE TENTS WOMEN AND CHILDREN MEDICINE BY CHILD VARIOUS OF WOMAN GIVING CHILD MEDICINE FAMILY SITTING INSIDE TENT (SOUNDBITE) (Sindhi) FLOOD-DISPLACED PERSON WHO CAME FROM KHAIRPUR NATHAN SHAH, MOMINA MOHAMMAD, SAYING: “We came here from a flood-hit area. It is very hot here. I am sick. My children are also sick. We go to the doctor who tries to treat our illness but God is the healer. We are getting medicine here. My children are suffering from malaria fever. I am worried about them.” PEOPLE CROWDING TO REGISTER FOR RATIONS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GETTING WATER FROM A WATER TANKER WOMAN CARRYING CANISTER OF WATER WATER IN CANISTER MAN DRINKING WATER MAN HOLDING HAND FAN WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) FLOOD-DISPLACED PERSON WHO CAME FROM MEHAR, MOHAMMAD MURAD, SAYING: “Floods inundated our homes and we came down here. The water which is supplied through the water tanker here is not clean. The children are falling sick by drinking this water. They suffer from colds, coughs, and skin problems. There are no good arrangements for drinking water here.” (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE OF CAMP FOR FLOOD-DISPLACED PEOPLE SET UP OUTSIDE SCHOOL BUILDING
  • Embargoed: 28th September 2022 07:53
  • Keywords: Pakistan Tando Muhammad Khan diseases drone floods health hospital malaria stagnant water
  • Location: TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN, PAKISTAN
  • City: TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents,Floods
  • Reuters ID: LVA001516414092022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Doctors at makeshift hospitals treating Pakistan's flood evacuees said on Tuesday (September 13) that they were seeing more cases of patients suffering from water-borne diseases as well as malaria as water levels show no sign of receding.
    With hundreds living in tents, hygiene and sanitation were also being challenged. A resident at the camp, located on the grounds of a school in the hard-hit southern Sindh province, said the water being supplied through tankers was not clean, but there was little that they could do about this.
    The Health Minister for Sindh, Azra Fazal Pechuho, said a total of 856,000 patients had been treated since the floods began, mostly at mobile hospitals because more than 1,200 health facilities were under water. Conditions including dysentery, diarrhoea, malaria, skin diseases, and dengue fever are already widespread, she told a news briefing earlier this week.
    (Production: Waseem Sattar, Shahabuddin Shahab)
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