Pakistan said Monday there have been no fatalities for the past three days from the deadly floods that engulfed the country since mid-June, a hopeful sign that the nation is turning a corner on the disaster.
Since the start of the unprecedented monsoon rains and flooding, 1,545 people have died and thousands more have been injured. The floods have affected 33 million people, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Swelling waters have swept away villages, roads and bridges, and at one point inundated a third of Pakistan's territory.
According to the provincial health department in Sindh, the country's worst-hit province, a total of 68,418 patients were registered there on Sunday. Hundreds of villages in Sindh remain under water. Last week, doctors said they treated 90,000 patients at medical and makeshift camps across the province.
Last week, the UN children's agency said more deaths from diseases can be avoided by ensuring medical facilities in flood-affected areas were adequately supplied. "All of us on the ground see malnourished children, battling diarrhea and malaria, dengue fever, and many with painful skin conditions," Fadil added. "A lot of the mothers are anemic and malnourished themselves and have very low-weight babies."
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