PRCS reported 15,000 severe diarrhea cases
The PRCS has also set up water filtration plants with the daily capacity of a million litres of water.
ISLAMABAD:
Health teams of Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) treated more than 60,000 flood victims of Southern Punjab and Sindh. The health teams reported 15000 severe diarrhea cases in flood hit areas among those treated.
The PRCS has also set up water filtration plants with the daily capacity of a million litres of water. The organisation provided free medicines and ambulance services to the patients of diarrhea and other water borne diseases besides providing purification tablets in the flood-hit areas.
The PRCS set up 31 health teams in collaboration with International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies and International Committee of Red Cross, which are working round the clock in different worst affected areas of Southern Punjab, Sindh and KPK.
Chairperson of PRCS, senator Neelofur Bakhtiar said that specialist PRCS “Watsan” (water and sanitation) teams are reactivating equipment from former Spanish Red Cross Watsan Emergency Response Units, first shipped to Pakistan as part of the international response to the 2007 floods, and more flown in from Spain.
One unit, trucked from Karachi, has been set up at Shikarpur town near a flyover where more than 2,000 people were sleeping in Red Crescent tents. The unit was also pumping up to 20,000 litres a day as the people here were drinking dirty water from a lake before this, she said.
She said another PRCS team supported by delegates from the Austrian and Swedish Red Cross will be providing clean water for up to 40,000 people in two districts of Punjab province in the next two days and the PRCS will be providing 400000 liters of clean drinking water per day to the victims of flood.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 30th, 2010.
Health teams of Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) treated more than 60,000 flood victims of Southern Punjab and Sindh. The health teams reported 15000 severe diarrhea cases in flood hit areas among those treated.
The PRCS has also set up water filtration plants with the daily capacity of a million litres of water. The organisation provided free medicines and ambulance services to the patients of diarrhea and other water borne diseases besides providing purification tablets in the flood-hit areas.
The PRCS set up 31 health teams in collaboration with International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies and International Committee of Red Cross, which are working round the clock in different worst affected areas of Southern Punjab, Sindh and KPK.
Chairperson of PRCS, senator Neelofur Bakhtiar said that specialist PRCS “Watsan” (water and sanitation) teams are reactivating equipment from former Spanish Red Cross Watsan Emergency Response Units, first shipped to Pakistan as part of the international response to the 2007 floods, and more flown in from Spain.
One unit, trucked from Karachi, has been set up at Shikarpur town near a flyover where more than 2,000 people were sleeping in Red Crescent tents. The unit was also pumping up to 20,000 litres a day as the people here were drinking dirty water from a lake before this, she said.
She said another PRCS team supported by delegates from the Austrian and Swedish Red Cross will be providing clean water for up to 40,000 people in two districts of Punjab province in the next two days and the PRCS will be providing 400000 liters of clean drinking water per day to the victims of flood.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 30th, 2010.