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In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan's worst floods in decades to a city hospital, desperate to bring down the boy's fever.
“Doctors told me he was alright. Then I came out of (the) hospital. No doctor gave me a proper reply about his illness. I brought my child here. I took him in my arms and at night my child died,” she said.
Bibi's son is one of the hundreds of children who have died in the deluge that has devastated large parts of Pakistan's southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. They either drowned as waters flooded homes or were struck by diseases, some of them water-borne.
According to official figures, 496 of the 1,399 killed so far in the floods have been children. Some aid groups fear that they will now be particularly vulnerable to sickness likely to spread as waters begin to recede. UNICEF has said the floods had impacted a total of 16 million children, and that out of the total, 3.4 million children needed “life-saving support.”
Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers triggered the disaster that has shown no sign of abating for the last month.
As many as 33 million people of the 220 million in the South Asian nation have been affected in some way by the floods that swept away houses, roads, railways and bridges and submerged around 4 million acres of farmland.
Some, like Bibi's family, have managed to escape to safety.
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“Doctors told me he was alright. Then I came out of (the) hospital. No doctor gave me a proper reply about his illness. I brought my child here. I took him in my arms and at night my child died,” she said.
Bibi's son is one of the hundreds of children who have died in the deluge that has devastated large parts of Pakistan's southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. They either drowned as waters flooded homes or were struck by diseases, some of them water-borne.
According to official figures, 496 of the 1,399 killed so far in the floods have been children. Some aid groups fear that they will now be particularly vulnerable to sickness likely to spread as waters begin to recede. UNICEF has said the floods had impacted a total of 16 million children, and that out of the total, 3.4 million children needed “life-saving support.”
Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers triggered the disaster that has shown no sign of abating for the last month.
As many as 33 million people of the 220 million in the South Asian nation have been affected in some way by the floods that swept away houses, roads, railways and bridges and submerged around 4 million acres of farmland.
Some, like Bibi's family, have managed to escape to safety.
For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/9119478/pakistan-flooding-un-secretary-general/
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