Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said this Monday (29) that the heavy rains that hit Pakistan meant “a third of the country was flooded”.
Rehman said, “This is a crisis of unimaginable dimensions. It’s all a big ocean, there is no dry land to pump the water,” and reminded that the damage has already been felt by 33 million Pakistanis, more or less.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the monsoon was “unprecedented in the last 30 years”.
During one of his visits to the affected areas, the Sheriff repeated his minister and said that “everywhere there is an ocean.”
The government said that efforts to rescue affected people or search for the missing continue unabated, but are strictly isolated areas, which delays operations. The number of victims rose to 1,061 on Monday, 28 more than on Sunday (28).
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported that the number of people in need of medical care has increased and that, in addition to the hospitals it administers in the Balochistan and Sindh regions, “mobile clinics” have been created where the most affected are “internally displaced”.
“To date, our teams have provided outpatient support to more than 300 patients with diarrhea, respiratory infections, malnutrition, skin disease, as well as pregnant women. There were about 20 patients who needed to be referred to the hospital in Dera Murad Jamali district center for treatment,” said MSF in the country. announced Xu Weibing, head of the mission.
The organization also confirmed that it is facing “logistical problems” to help many people due to “flooded roads that have completely isolated some cities.”
Monsoons occur in the country usually between June and September and are always damaging. However, the situation in 2022 is much more serious and covers a much wider area. For officials, heavy rains and floods are the visible effects of climate change on the planet.
source: Noticias
