Pakistan floods have killed more than 1,200 people, UN agencies continue to provide assistance
Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF representative in Pakistan, said that over the past few weeks, Pakistan's monsoon rains have broken a century record, with some provinces receiving five times the rainfall average of its 30-year period. many. The resulting floods washed away or damaged more than 1.1 million homes, especially destroying critical infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, on which some children depended for basic services.
UNICEF estimates that at least 18,000 schools across Pakistan have been damaged or destroyed, and 16 million children have been affected by the floods, including 3.4 million in need of humanitarian support.
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Fadir further pointed out that about 160 bridges and 5,000 kilometers of roads were destroyed or damaged, 3.5 million acres of crops were affected, and about 800,000 livestock were lost, all of which made disaster mitigation and relief efforts extremely difficult. Nonetheless, UNICEF is distributing humanitarian supplies in all affected provinces, including drinking water, water purification tablets, hygiene products, medicines, vaccines, mosquito nets and therapeutic food for children, pregnant and breastfeeding women.
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Chris Kaye, head of the World Food Programme in Pakistan, said that the situation in Pakistan was already serious before this round of floods, with 43% of the country's population in a state of food insecurity. For the entire region of Pakistan, there is a major challenge, and that is how to restore agricultural production and help local people become self-sufficient.
Kaye also pointed out that the United Nations has begun to respond to the emergency donation appeal of about 160 million US dollars for Pakistan's disaster relief, but one of the biggest challenges at present is still the logistics of relief materials.
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