Flood in Pakistan

The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 following heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions of Pakistan. While tens of hundreds of people have been killed, millions have been displaced, and a quarter million homes are thought to be damaged or destroyed. The Pakistan Meteorological Department said that over 200mm (7.88 inches) of rain fell over a 24-hours period over a number of places of Khyper Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. Floods have submerged 17 million acres (69,000 km) of Pakistan’s most fertile crop land, have killed 200,000 herd of lives livestock and have washed away massive amounts of grain. Muzaffargarh is a town in southwestern Punjab, located on the one bank of the Chenab River and on the other bank is Multan city. Muzaffargarh is the neighboring town of Multan city. In this severe flooding in Pakistan summer of 2010, was especially hard-hit, given its position between the Chenab and Indus River.

Due to this flood up to 3.5 million children are at high risk of deadly water borne diseases, such as Gastroenteritis, Diarrhea, and skin diseases due to lack of clean drinking water and sanitation can pose a serious new risk to flood victims. After flood due to standing water there is a rapid production of mosquitoes, abdominal disease, fever, malaria and skin diseases.

All schools of Punjab province have been closed due summer vacation. So, the Government of Punjab, decided that all schools buildings should be used as a temporary camp for flood victims (IDPs) and also give them shelter foe few weeks.

Faisal Public School also takes part in this effort. So, from Muzaffargarh which is only 30 km far from Multan city. Some Women and children came to stay in Faisal Public School.

The management of Faisal Public School hosted the IDPS and gave them facility of doctor, first aid, food and try to educate them about sanitation and health awareness.

The teacher of Faisal Public School Babar Maqbool Khan welcome them in the school and came to know about the problems which they are facing. First of all one of their major problem is food. So, we provide them food.

SODIS METHOD

Solar water disinfection - the SODIS method - is a simple procedure to disinfect drinking water. Contaminated water is filled in a transparent PET-bottle or glass bottle and exposed to the sun for 6 hours. During this time, the UV-radiation of the sun kills diarrhoea generating pathogens. The SODIS-method helps to prevent diarrhoea and thereby is saving lives of people. This is urgently necessary as still more than 4000 children die every day from the consequences of diarrhoea. SODIS (abbreviation of Solar Water Disinfection) is an initiative of Eawag. We facilitate the dissemination of the SODIS-method in developing countries. Thereby people in the south get access to safe drinking water and can improve their health in the long term. Source: http://www.sodis.ch/index_EN

Then Babar Maqbool Khan told them about that how they could get safe drinking water without any equipment. They can get safe drinking water from SODIS Method. Then Mr. Babar Maqbool Khan showed them practically, this method.

Faisal Public School also arranged a Doctor’s visit. Dr. Farrhat also told them the importance of cleanliness and sanitation because most of diseases are spreading due to unhygienic. We also provide them soap. Then doctor checked one by one all the IDPS.

After this Mr. Babar Maqbool Khan provide children some pencils and books. So, that they can spend their time in studying books.

There is young lady a having a cell phone. So we also included her in our m-Health SMS Service. We tried our best to help the flood victims personally and also tried to mobilize the local community to support these people. Best they need is more and more attention by the society to recover.