Alarming child mortality rates in parts of southern Pakistan

[Barrett808]

...With the ebbing of floodwaters, and the opening up of access routes to NGOs and the army, there are large pockets of flood-displaced populations that have received little or no support to date. In addition, initial assessments show alarming mortality rates of children under five in this district - as high as 25 percent. ...

Alarming child mortality rates in parts of southern Pakistan

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that winter will worsen the threats of epidemic against children inhabited in flood hit areas, who already suffer high rates of acute respiratory infections and malnutrition.

“The coming cold months will sharply increase the numbers of respiratory infections and malnutrition, two of the biggest killers of Pakistani children”, said Daniel Toole, UNICEF’s Regional Director for South Asia while talking to APP on Monday said. ...

UNICEF warns epidemic outbreak among flood hit children

[leftstreet]

1. Can't our drones drop vitamins on them or something?

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

K&R

[thunder rising]

2. That's almost as bad as southern Alabama.

[midnight]

3. Sadly, it doesn't surprise me....

[Barrett808]

4. Peak Humanitarian Aid

Peak Humanitarian Aid: The period during which accelerating climate crises overwhelm the capacity of industrial civilization to handle them.

Has this peak arrived, along with the others? The July 2010 flood catastrophe in Pakistan suggests that it has. ...

Peak Humanitarian Aid