ISLAMABAD: The World Health Organisation (WHO) will provide ambulances, vans and bed nets to the internally displaced people to protect them from outbreak of malaria in the makeshift camps, WHO Regional Director Dr Hussain A Gezairy said on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters, he said his organisation had already provided essential medicines, including malaria and diarrhoea kits, to the medical teams working in the flood-affected areas.
Earlier, Gezairy called on Federal Health Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin, along with two other WHO officials, Dr Guido Sabatinelli and Dr Farah Shadoul, and discussed health issues concerning the flood affectees.
The minister welcomed the WHO regional director and thanked him for talking interest in undertaking visits to various flood-affected areas in Pakistan.
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