OCT 2022-OCT 2023

PAKISTAN FLOODS: PROVIDING HEALTHCARE AND WATER

©MSF/ Zahra Shoukat

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Médecins sans frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian association. For 50 years it has provided medical assistance to people whose lives or health are in danger, mainly as a result of armed conflicts, epidemics or natural disasters. Since 2014, we’ve been regularly funding its work to provide lifesaving care across Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe.

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CHALLENGE

The devastating floods that struck Pakistan in 2022 left more than one-third of the country under water and over 33 million people in need of lifesaving support. Houses, crops and livestock were washed away and many public health facilities as well as water infrastructure were damaged or destroyed.

ACTION

MSF teams set up mobile clinics to provide emergency care for affected communities in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. The teams also provided water and sanitation support in several villages where the infrastructure for clean drinking water had been heavily impaired. In Jaffarabad district, for instance, the teams installed a water filtration plant with a capacity of 270,000 litres per day. In Charsadda district MSF installed water filtration systems and cleaned and decontaminated 800 wells in flood-affected villages.

IMPACT

In the aftermath of the floods MSF teams provided emergency care and water and sanitation support across Sidh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.

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