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Floods are the "greatest climatic calamity," according to Sherry Rehman.
There are still 20,6 million individuals in need of help, according to the federal minister.
Over 1,700 people were murdered due to record monsoon rainfall and flooding.
Islamabad: On Wednesday, the Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman, disclosed that more than 600,000 pregnant women in flood-affected areas of Pakistan require urgent medical attention.
More than 1,700 people were killed, and more than $30 billion worth of damage was caused by floods caused by record monsoon rains and glacier melt in the northern Himalayas. These floods washed away houses, roads, railway lines, bridges, animals, and crops.
They risk dying from several diseases, including cholera, typhoid, Hepatitis E, and other preventable diseases. They saved through the use of several vaccines that are currently available. Health officials and experts have urged the government to initiate an inoculation drive for pregnant women in flood-hit areas because they are at risk of dying from several diseases simultaneously.
During a news conference, Pakistan's Minister of Climate Change Rehman said that his country is presently experiencing the "worst climate disaster" that the world has ever witnessed.
According to the minister, the disaster would cause an extra 15.4 million individuals to fall below the federal poverty level. She went on to say that the fact that 7.1 million people are still in need necessitates an increased response to the issue of dietary demands. In addition, women and children comprise 70% of the impacted population.
The phrase "massive number."
0.6 million pregnant women in flood-affected areas is a "massive number," according to Jahan Zuberi, a technical specialist, and midwife at Mama Baby Fund, a non-governmental organization. Zuberi spoke about pregnant women facing a severe health crisis, referring to the issue.
"The floods have had a disproportionately negative impact on the lives of rural women. They have previously been through a catastrophe in terms of their health. Most of these women cannot get to medical facilities quickly enough. "During his interview with Geo. tv, Zuberi underlined that his organization has been active in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan ever before the floods occurred.
At the Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022, a physician named Naveed Ahmed, age 30, provides medical help to a lady named Koonjh, age 25, who is suffering from a fever. The flooding impacted Koonjh. — Reuters
At the Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022, a physician named Naveed Ahmed, age 30, provides medical help to a lady named Koonjh, age 25, who is suffering from a fever. The flooding impacted Koonjh. — Reuters
Zuberi mentioned that there was already a health crisis in the two provinces and added that for these ladies to get to a clinic, they have to walk for one to two hours. Zuberi made this statement after observing that there was already a crisis.
"If they do have a clinic in their neighborhood, it does not guarantee that it is staffed or that it provides medicine," she added. "So many women go without care during their pregnancies and would deliver with an unskilled day (midwife), or with their mother or mother-in-law at their house."
She encouraged the government to take the issue in healthcare more seriously and stated that the only way to deal with such a problem is to build a better framework. Zuberi added that this is the only way to deal with such a predicament.
She stated that the organization has seen 1,000 women and has given out 9,000 safe delivery kits. Various groups and individuals who distribute these kits are helping out in the affected areas, but their efforts are insufficient.
Zuberi emphasized that to bring about genuine transformation for these communities and "if we're going to create them better than they were before" is to maintain financing and placement of structural adjustments moving ahead.
"The worst environmental disaster of the century"
During her news conference earlier today, the environmental and climate change minister stated that the situation in Sindh and Balochistan is still "grim" due to the standing floodwater, which has kept 11 districts flooded.
Consequently, the minister pointed out that the circumstances have made efforts to provide humanitarian help a complicated issue. To say nothing of Pakistan, it has evolved into the most catastrophic climatic disaster that the entire globe has ever witnessed in a century.
— Reuters
A victim of the flooding in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 16, 2022, carries his donkey cart. A stranded flood victim in Sehwan, Pakistan, pushes his donkey cart through waist-deep water on September 16, 2022, as he tries to get to higher ground following the rains and floods. Through a flooded roadway in the aftermath of the rains and floods during the monsoon season. — Reuters
The minister stated that the World Bank had computed a "conservative" estimate of $40 billion in flood losses, yet, the damages caused by the most recent deluge are more than those caused by the storm in 2010.
The minister shed some insight on the severity of the floods by stating that an estimated 20.6 million people are still in need of assistance. This number is greater than the combined populations of Portugal and Switzerland.
"Serving a population roughly equivalent to that of two other nations is the challenge Pakistan is currently facing. It is not an easy assignment. Although we are now engaged in the most extended relief effort that any country has ever witnessed, the rescue mission has been called off, "Rehman remarked
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