Pakistan delivers flood aid, people wait in camps
(16 Sep 2022) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4397558 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 HEADLINE: Pakistan delivers flood aid, people wait in camps ANNOTATION: Pakistani naval personnel on Thursday assisted in supplying vital aid to residents affected by flooding in Sindh province. ANNOTATION: The military were seen loading rubber boats with supplies in Dadu and sailing them to areas where people had been cut off by flooding. 2. Boats sailing 3. Flooded village 4. Residents wading through flood water 5. Wide of relief camp ANNOTATION: Officials worry about the spread of waterborne disease among the thousands of survivors as floodwaters from monsoon rains continued to recede. 6. Various of families at relief camp 7. Close of child inside camp 8. SOUNDBITE (Sindhi) Benazir Inayat, displaced resident: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++ "I left my house, along with my 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." ASSOCIATED PRESS Sukkur, Sindh province - 15 September 2022 9. Various of doctors examining sick children inside medical camp run by WHO in cooperation with the Sindh government ANNOTATION: Some doctors said they were initially seeing mostly patients traumatized by the flooding. ANNOTATION: But they are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other waterborne ailments. 10. 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." 11. Various of doctor examining child ANNOTATION: The floods have left hundreds of thousands homeless and killed 1,508 people, the majority of them women and children. 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. 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 traumatized by the flooding but are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other waterborne ailments. In Sukkur, World Health Organization 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. ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== ===== 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] 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...
