UN Appeals For More Aid For Pak

Pakistan News: The United Nations (UN) has once again appealed to the international community to send more aid to Pakistan to save innocent lives.

Executive Directors of UFO, UNICEF and UNESCO in a press conference in Islamabad said that the UN has fulfilled only 25 percent needs of shelter, water and food in the flood-hit area while affectees only 50 percent food demands are being met. WFP has provided one month ration to 30 lac flood affectees.

Weeks of heavy rains have flooded fully 20 percent of the country and left more than four million people without shelter, according the UN figures. As estimated 8 million people need immediate assistance and are in life-threatening situations, from disease or starvation. Pakistan is facing a public health catastrophe after the worst floods in living memory. The homes of some of the poorest people have been washed away and waterborne diseases, such as cholera, threaten to compound the suffering. Aid is getting through but there is still a massive amount of work to be done.

In total, some 20 million people have been affected by the rising waters. As the crisis has deepened, the government’s capacity to provide help has been pushed to the breaking point.