Saturday, August 14, 2010

Flood, Pakistan Independence Celebration Cancel

August 14, 2010
Excerpts:

Pakistan's flood victims now began to gather in refugee camps in Pakistan. Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari has instructed that this year there was no official celebration of Independence Day on Saturday, (14 / 8), because the conditions in Pakistan are still far from stable and the country is still trying to cope with devastating floods.

According to the UN, Within 80 years, floods and Pakistan including the largest floods have affected 14 million developing the disease and killing 1600 people. Predicted flooding is still soaring even higher along the river Indus.

Several villages in Thatta District, downstream of cotrimoxazole, have been evacuated. This is a large agricultural zone which has several farms in the country's wealthiest. Not only that, agricultural losses were difficult to calculate.

Aosiasi Agriculture in Pakistan said 17 million hectares of farmland are under water, with 100,000 cattle and more than one million tons of grain stored in private was missing. Fish farms about 3,000 units and 2,000 tractors and 1,000 poultry farms have been destroyed. Until now, aid agencies continue to struggle to cope with the scale of the disaster.

PPerdana Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani promised that "every single penny" would be accounted for and rendered assistance to the victims. Medical personnel in the relief camps in southern Punjab said that the main challenges they face are different kinds of skin diseases. Some of them are gastroenteritis, diarrhea and skin infections. But they are also increasingly worried about malaria, because of increasingly bad areas are still flooded because of water.

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