Flooding in Pakistan – Updated Highlights

Overview

Due to the extreme monsoon season and high rainfall since early June of this year Pakistan has seen its worst floods since 2010. It is believed that over 33 million people have been affected by the flooding. our Regional Security Advisor Fida Hussain sets out below the highlights and affects of this deadly natural disaster.

Highlights

• Roads reported damaged or destroyed nearly doubled in the past week, to over 12,700 km.
• Reported number of damaged or destroyed bridges increases by 40 per cent in a week.
• Preliminary estimates based on currently available data indicate that around 7.6 million people may be temporarily displaced. Efforts to verify the extent of displacement are ongoing.
• Food security and nutrition situation in Pakistan are expected to also deteriorate in areas not directly affected by the floods.
• Food security and nutrition situation in Pakistan are expected to also deteriorate in areas not directly affected by the floods.
• To date, more than 1.14 million houses have been damaged and over 765,000 houses have been destroyed across the country, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)
• mpact of the heavy rains and floods on production in the agricultural sector as well as on market prices has been severe across Pakistan, even in areas spared by the floods, risking a deterioration in the food security situation across the country.
• Over 1,460 public health facilities have been damaged, while medicines, medical equipment and vaccines have been destroyed.
• Increased incidences of malaria, dengue, acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) and cholera are being reported and expected to continue to rise in the coming months.
• So far, UNHCR has delivered 950,000 life-saving supplies to authorities for distribution
• The water level in the Manchhar Lake — one of the largest freshwater reserves in the country — further receded on Monday with officials expecting the situation to return to “complete normalcy”, provided that the water continued to flow to the river Indus without any disruption.
• The recent monstrous floods and rains have damaged around 1,100 government schools in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, impacting the studies of thousands of students.
• During the last 24 hours, 12,000 cases of asthma, and chest-related infections were reported in Sindh. around 20,000 people were found affected by skin disease. More than 2,500 cases of malaria were reported in flood-hit areas.  WHO expresses deep concerns about the potential for a second disaster in Pakistan: a wave of diseases and deaths.

Damages/loss of life Statistics

• 765K houses destroyed
• 1.14M houses damaged
• 12.7K kilometres of roads damaged
• 1.5K people killed
• 12.9K people injured
• 936K livestock lost

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