- 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
- 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.
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