Pakistan delivers flood aid, people wait in camps

(15 Sep 2022)     RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Dadu, Sindh province - 15 September 2022 1. Various of Pakistan Navy rescue and relief team loading boats with medical supplies and food items 2. Various of boats sailing 3. Various of flooded village 4. Residents wading through flood water 5. Various of relief camp 6. Various of families at relief camp 7. Various children inside camp 8. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Benazir Inayat, displaced resident: "I left my house, along with kids, with empty hands. Flood water entered my house. I did not take anything with me just saved my children. Now here most of my kids are sick. I have been here for the last six days, but so far not enough aid has reached us. (We) don't have clean drinking water and food for our kids." 9. Inayat waving hand fan on sick child ASSOCIATED PRESS Sukkur, Sindh province - 15 September 2022 10. Various of doctors examining sick children inside medical camp run by WHO in cooperation with the Sindh government 11. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ghulam Hussain Buledi, Area Coordinator for WHO Sukkur: "We are receiving approximately 700 patients a day, in which most of the patients are suffering from eye and skin infections. Malaria is also increasing, (the) main reason is the lack of clean drinking water and living in congested conditions is also one of the reasons people are getting infections from each other. So far fumigation has not started as much as it's needed." 12. World Health Organisation (WHO) logo 13. Various of doctor examining child STORYLINE: Pakistani naval personnel on Thursday assisted in supplying vital aid to residents affected by flooding in Sindh province. The military were seen loading rubber boats with supplies in Dadu and sailing them to areas where people had been cut off by flooding. That happened as officials raised concerns about the spread of waterborne disease among the thousands of victims as floodwaters from powerful monsoon rains continued to recede. Some doctors said initially they were seeing mostly patients traumatised by the flooding but are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other waterborne ailments. In Sukkur, World Health Organisation area coordinator Dr. Ghulam Hussain Buledi told The Associated Press that medical staff at the medical camp he was working in were seeing about 700 patients a day. The floods have left hundreds of thousands homeless and killed 1,508 people, the majority of them women and children. At one point, a third of the country's territory was submerged. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: [email protected] (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...