Children succumb to water-borne diseases after floods wreak havoc in Pakistan

tion caused by floods across Pakistan, children are dying from cholera, an acute diarrheal illness contracted by drinking water contaminated with bacteria.
According to CNN, more than 10 children are dying every day at the Mother and Child Healthcare Hospital in Pakistan’s Sindh province alone, according to doctors at the facility from Cholera which is a water-related ailment that stemmed from devastating floods in the South-Asian country. Balochistan and Sindh have been attacked by numerous infections that caused devastation in the two provinces. The stagnant floodwaters have led to widespread cases of skin and eye infections, diarrhoea, malaria, typhoid and dengue fever across numerous provinces in Pakistan, triggering health threats to people in Pakistan.
“The floods came and the rain fell. And then our patients came in like the floods,” said Dr. Nazia Urooj, the physician in charge of the hospital’s children’s emergency unit, CNN reported.
The number of malaria cases in the country had gone up to 229.
Despite the efforts of the government and local and foreign relief organisations, many people are in urgent need of food and medicine in flood-hit regions despite the efforts of the government and humanitarian organisations, according to the Express Tribune.
A majority of Pakistanis are unhappy with the government’s response to the unprecedented natural disaster that has ravaged millions of lives in the cash-strapped country, according to a survey.