 |
| Pakistan's Flood Effected |
Six million people desperate to get food, clean water.
Indus River is at forty times from its normal volume.
Asian Development Bank announced Thursday to offer $2 billion emergency loan for rehabilitation and reconstruction.
World Health Organization announced estimations on Wednesday saying over fifteen million people have been affected in the floods and only about 1.2 million of them are getting safe water supplies.
Out of 1,167 health facilities, 200 of it are damaged in the floods, including hospitals.
WHO reports of growing fatal diarrhea and respiratory tract infections.
By Wednesday United Nations, organizations and individuals had sent $231 million aid to Pakistan and had pledged to send another $40 million.
So far, UN alone has sent $82 million aid and is the largest single donor.
United States claim had contributed $90 million, which includes boats, helicopters and temporary bridges.
Britain has sent so far over $40 million and said to double it to over $90 million.
Among the Muslim countries, Turkey is the largest donor. The country has donated $11 million.
Kuwait donated $5 million according to UN figures.
---------------------------------------------------
Further Read
Pakistan Flood Coverage Lingers
The Aid For Pakistan Flood Helps To Keep Terrorists At Bay: Qureshi
---------------------------------------------------
Comments
Post a Comment
User comments posted on Asia Pacific News website are the sole views and opinions of the comment writer and are not representative of any of our staff, writer, agency, reporter or citizen journalist. We accept no liability and will not be held accountable for user comments.
We reserve the right to edit, to remove or to censor any comments.
Webmasters seeking for backlinks may contribute a guest post with two outbound links (Home page and internal page) and submit it in the below comment box, which will be shifted to blog post under suitable category by moderator.