Disease spreads in Pakistan as flooding toll surpasses 1,500

• According to NDMA, there have been 1508 deaths, including 536 children and 308 women.
• More than 90,000 people a day were treated for infectious, waterborne diseases.
• Flood affected areas are affected by malaria, dengue fever, diarrhea and skin problems.

More than 90,000 people were treated for infectious and water-borne diseases in a single day in Pakistan’s flood-hit areas, government data showed on Friday. Death toll Floods exceed 1,500.

According to a report issued by the provincial government of South Sindh on Friday, the flood-affected areas have been affected by diseases including malaria, dengue fever, diarrhea and skin problems.

It confirmed 17,977 cases of diarrhea and 20,064 cases of skin disease as well as 588 cases of malaria with 10,604 suspected cases on Thursday. A total of 2.3 lakh patients have been treated since July 1 in the field and mobile hospitals set up in the flood affected area.

Record Monsoon The rains Snowmelt in southern and southwestern Pakistan and in northern parts caused floods that affected about 33 million people in the South Asian country of 220 million, causing an estimated $30 billion in damage to homes, crops, bridges, roads and livestock.

The National Disaster Management Authority reported 1,508 deaths, including 536. Children and 308 women.

Millions of displaced people are in dire need of food, shelter, clean drinking water, sanitation and medical supplies.

Many people are sleeping in the open on the side of elevated highways.

The stormy monsoon, which inundated large parts of Pakistan, was a one-in-a-hundred-year event likely to become more intense due to climate change, scientists said on Thursday.