Pakistan Flood Update and Latest New 2022

In the Pakistan flood update:  33 million people are affected by the flooding that hit Pakistan and left one-third of the country underwater.

It caused the death of more than 1,300 people, including 458 children. And caused serious injuries for more than 12,700 persons as well.

The Government of Pakistan announced a national emergency on August 26, appealing for international aid.

Government officials and humanitarian organizations face enormous challenges in reaching people in need. They urged the need for a humanitarian scale-up.

The floods resulting from the heavy monsoon rains forced the citizens of the northwest of the country to leave their homes. They leave after the rivers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province overflowed their banks and overflowed everywhere. It caused a huge flood in the province of Sindh (southeast).

As a result, thousands of people evacuated their homes.

Pakistani President Arif Alvi appealed to his countrymen and the international community to support the flood victims who are in dire need of rescue, relief, and rehabilitation after the unprecedented rains. Furthermore, floods claimed lives and demolished the livelihoods of people in various regions of the country.

Wide destruction:

The floods caused great damage to the infrastructure in several Pakistani provinces, most notably Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Baluchistan. Moreover, it resulted in partial damage to the Punjab province.

According to local and international estimates, nearly a third of Pakistan’s area is underwater.

Adding to that, the flood disaster does not stop there it also affects large sectors of Pakistan areas.

In addition to the destruction of infrastructure and the impact on the economy, and the decline in food security. There are risks of an increase in the spread of diseases as a result of floods and the destruction of a huge number of health centers.

The health sector had a huge share of destruction, which exacerbated the disaster.

The World Health Organization of the United Nations said that the disaster caused damage to more than 1,460 health centers,  including destroying of  432 health clinics, most of them in Sindh province.

Doctors who provide medical care in the affected areas lack to have places to stay and are unable to reach all the affected areas.

Fear of more flooding in Pakistan:

People displaced by the destructive flooding complain that they are without food and ration as authorities struggle to deal with the disaster.

In the flood’s instant aftermath, aid agencies reported that unnumbered children were suffering severe hunger. Furthermore, they are currently dependent on polluted drinking water for survival.

Pregnant women and older people, who fled into makeshift relief camps, are unable to access life-saving medicines. For example for hospitals in the hit areas are severely overwhelmed.

It is worth highlighting that malaria cases are rising so fast that they have run out of capacity to test for the disease.

As the fear mount, traumatized people now face food shortages, famine, and disease.

Few doubts at the crisis engulfing the country will get much worse in the coming months.

Scientists have carried out a former rapid attribution study of the disaster. Its away of determining how much worse, or more likely. A drastic weather event made by humans caused global heating.

They concluded that climate change has increased the power of flooding in the most affected areas by about 50%.

Lastly, Pakistan Flood Update were previously happening once a year. Otherwise, the study found they are likely to become more often in the future as global temperatures continue to rise more and more.

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