Karachi, September 21 (BNA) At least nine people have died of water-borne diseases in the flood-stricken areas of Pakistan. affected by the crisis.
According to the Disaster Management Agency, the intense and prolonged monsoon rains inundated Pakistan with about three times the average amount of rain in recent weeks, causing major floods that claimed 1,559 lives, including 551 children and 318 women.
Officials warn that they now risk losing control of the spread of the infection in a dire situation described by UNICEF as “extremely bleak”.
Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the floods live out in the open and as the floodwaters spread over hundreds of kilometers (miles) begin to recede – which officials say can take two to six months – the stagnant water has led to diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, skin and eye infections and diarrhea. atheism.
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