The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed deep concerns about the potential for a \u201csecond disaster in Pakistan: a wave of diseases and deaths\u201d as 1,500 people lost their lives to the records floods in the country.
\nAccording to media reports, in a statement, WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, \u201cI am deeply concerned about the potential for a second disaster in Pakistan: a wave of diseases and deaths following this catastrophe linked to climate change that has severely impacted vital health systems leaving millions vulnerable.\u201d
\nHe maintained that water supply is disrupted, forcing people to drink unsafe water, which can spread cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases.
\nThe WHO official said that stagnant water enabled mosquitoes to breed and spread vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue. Health centres had been flooded, their supplies damaged and people had moved away from homes which made it harder for them to access their normal health services.
\n\u201cAll this means more unsafe births, more untreated diabetes or heart diseases, and more children missing vaccination, to name but a few of the impacts on health,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if we act quickly to protect health and deliver essential health services, we can significantly reduce the impact of this impending crisis.
\n\u201cHealth workers in Pakistan are stretched to the limit as they do all they can to deliver critical services amid the destruction. Nearly 2,000 health facilities have been fully or partially damaged,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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