Day: August 23, 2022

The rescue and relief operation is underway in rain-affected districts of Sindh.

The provincial ministers and advisors have been directed to supervise the relief activities.

Routine life has badly been affected in Sukkur, Khairpur, Ghotki, Shikarpur, Jaccobabad, Kashmore-Kandhkot, Ghotki and all other districts of Sindh province due to continuous heavy rains.

According to Provincial Disaster Management Authority, four hundred free mobile medical and health camps have been set up in various districts to provide medical aid to flood affectees.

In Sukkur, the incessant rainfall and floods have damaged over 5,000 houses among them 805 were completely demolished.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Punjab government has decided to increase the aid package for the rains and flood affected people in the province.

This was decided in a meeting of Ministerial Disaster Management Committee held under the chairmanship of Punjab Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Raja Muhammad Basharat in Lahore on Wednesday.

During the meeting, it was decided that one million rupees will be given to the family of the deceased person and three hundred thousand rupees to be given to the severely injured.

It was decided to give fifteen thousand rupees per acre up to 12.5 acres in case of loss of crops.

Punjab government will also provide four hundred thousand rupees in case of complete destruction of a house.

Source: Radio Pakistan

The European Union is providing nearly 76 million rupees as humanitarian assistance to families affected by severe flooding, which has wreaked havoc across many parts of Pakistan.

The aid will focus on addressing the urgent needs of those most affected in some of the hardest-hit districts of Jhal Magsi and Lasbella in Balochistan.

The assistance will support International Rescue Committee in delivering much-needed assistance.

This includes the provision of cash transfers to help flood-stricken families to meet their immediate needs, primary healthcare services, with a focus on water-born and communicable diseases, which are common after a flood, as well as nutrition support.

The programme will also provide psychological support to vulnerable groups such as women, adolescent girls and children.

The EU funding is being made available via the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations of the European Commission, through its Small Scale Response mechanism.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Minister for National Health Services Abdul Qadir Patel has said two million medicated mosquito nets will be provided to the flood-affected areas in Balochistan and Sindh during the next few days.

Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said 1.4 million medicated mosquito nets will be provided to Balochistan and six hundred thousand to Sindh province.

The Minister said that we have also provided medicines and anti-snake venom vaccines to both the provinces.

Abdul Qadir Patel said more medicines worth fifteen million rupees will be dispatched to Balochistan.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman has stressed the need to utilize all out resources to help flood victims.

In a statement on Tuesday, she said all the provinces need more resources to deal with the devastation due to floods.

She said new spell of rains will continue till Friday and the Climate Change Ministry has issued warnings in this regard.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will meet his Qatari counterpart Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani on Tuesday.

They will discuss matters pertaining to bilateral and mutual interest.

Source: Radio Pakistan