KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – More than 90,000 people were treated for infectious and waterborne diseases in a day in southern Pakistan after floods caused by record rains and melting glaciers, government data showed on Friday.
The government of Sindh province said in a report on Thursday that malaria cases, including 588 confirmed and 10,604 suspected, 17,977 cases of diarrhea and 20,064 cases of skin diseases.
A total of 2.3 million patients have been treated since July 1 in field hospitals set up in the flooded region.
The floods in the south of the country affected nearly 33 million Pakistanis and caused damage estimated at 30 billion dollars.
The National Disaster Management Authority has also reported 1,508 deaths, including 536 children and 308 women.
Abnormally heavy monsoon rains, which have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan, only occur once every hundred years, but the phenomenon is likely becoming more intense due to climate change, scientists said Thursday.
(Report Syed Raza Hassan, written by Asif Shahzad; French version Lina Golovnya, edited by Kate Entringer)
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