(31 Aug 2022)
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Rojhan, Punjab - 31 August 2022
1. Various of displaced residents in camp
2. Various of doctors assessing patients and giving medicine
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mehmood Azhar, doctor:
"Many of the patients we are receiving have gastrointestinal disease and the reason is a shortage of clean drinking water, children are aso suffering from diarrhea and gastroenteritis."
4. Various of displaced residents in camp, floodwater, residents travelling on boat
5. SOUNDBITE (Saraiki) Aslam Khan, displaced resident:
"We have a shortage of food, tents and clean drinking water. The water we are drinking is dirty ,causing stomach pain, no one cares about us."
6. Various of women in boat, boat leaving
7. Tracking of displaced residents in camp
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Ghulam Mujtaba, doctor:
"Mainly, people are suffering from skin disease as they walk through floodwater, we're trying to give them medicine. There are a lot of diarrhea cases, some diseases are being caused by water that is contaminated, we are trying to provide the best services to these people."
9. Various of displaced residents at food distribution location, residents receiving and carrying food, blankets and other aid
STORYLINE:
Doctors in Pakistan raised concern on Wednesday over the spread of waterborne diseases among thousands of flood victims as waters from powerful monsoon rains began to recede in many parts of the country.
Massive flooding from the rains since mid-June has killed at least 1,162 people, a phenomenon experts blame on climate change.
Some doctors said initially they were seeing mostly patients traumatised by the flooding, but are now treating people suffering from diarrhea, skin infections and other waterborne ailments in the country's flood-hit areas.
Mehmood Azhar is a doctor who has been treating patients in Rojhan in Punjab.
He explained that many residents were suffering from gastrointestinal diseases because of a shortage of clean drinking water.
The development has forced the government to deploy additional medical teams and dispatch medicine, besides providing clean drinking water to survivors, many of whom are living in tents and makeshift homes.
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