Millions of people have lost their homes and need urgent humanitarian aid
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Friend, reports are coming in from our staff in Pakistan and we wanted to give you an update. The situation right now is dire: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have seen villages completely underwater and witnessed families living in tents and drinking floodwater to survive.
Our staff have distributed 236 hygiene kits near Uch Power Plant where people displaced by the disaster are taking shelter. We have so far provided 70,000 liters of clean drinking water to displaced families and medical consultations to around 2,575 patients at different locations in Naseerabad, Jaffarabad, and Dera Murad Jamali, Balochistan province.
– Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
P.S. Read on below to learn more about how we’re providing lifesaving medical care and why your support is so essential at this moment.
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From: Doctors Without Borders
Date: Wed, Aug 31, 2022
Friend,
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical staff are on the ground in Pakistan, responding to the massive floods that have devastated the region.
As you read this, more than 1,000 people have been killed–nearly 400 of them children–with some 33 million people affected by this disaster. The floods have destroyed more than one million houses.
Access to clean water and shelter are the most pressing needs right now. MSF staff members are on the ground in Pakistan providing urgent medical care, clean drinking water, and distributing hygiene kits. In the Dera Murad Jamali area, we have already provided more than 16,000 liters of clean drinking water while our mobile clinics are urgently providing outpatient care to people presenting with diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, fever and skin diseases, and also screening for malnutrition.
But, with more than one third of the country under water, the need is significant. Roads and access points are underwater, food and supplies are difficult to access, and many of our staff have lost their homes–but our lifesaving work presses on. Our teams are now preparing for possible outbreaks of waterborne diseases like cholera, and acting quickly to prevent the outbreak of disease is essential.
This email was sent from the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.
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