An epidemic outbreak after a month-old drain... visit a flooded site in pakistan

 A short drive from the city of Sukkur in Sindh Province, Pakistan, a huge body of water starts to flow on both sides of the road. The water that looks so deep that you might think you are passing through the middle of the lake stretches endlessly. Occasionally, only telephone poles and trees are visible, but other traces are hard to find.

Tents are lined up on the road where cars run. Cloths of different colors and sizes barely covered the sunlight. Everyone sits helplessly and stares at the water.

As we approached for coverage, everyone told us about the difficult situation after the flood.

"There's a house right there in the water. There's no support whatsoever. What can we do?"

 A city turned into a lake...

A village in Shadakoth, Kambar, Sindh, suffered the most from flooding as the water did not drain for a month .

As reporters leave, children flock to them.

“I want to be a teacher,” as one girl shyly replies when asked about her dream, other kids answer here and there.

"Me too", "I dream of becoming a teacher too"

The parents of the children blushed, saying that schools were submerged in water and that they were not getting an education because there were no teachers.

On August 30, the village they live in was flooded due to heavy rain.

I hurriedly went out onto the road to avoid the water that was rising up to the top of my head. From then on, their tent life on the road continued. Those who did not receive even a piece of cloth to be used for the tent were hurriedly covered with clothes and lived for three weeks. Since last week, 100 households returned to the village after hearing that the water had receded a little.

The condition of the town was dismal. Most of the houses collapsed, and some were still submerged.

Still, I think it's safer than on the road, so I'm living in a collapsed village. However, the water shows no signs of draining and life is difficult. Particularly distressing are the increasing number of mosquitoes and snakes. Because they carry deadly diseases. ■ Severe infectious diseases such as malaria and cholera... "I can't go to the hospital because I don't have transportation money."

When the reporters visited, a girl was suffering from severe malaria. The feverish girl was lying on the bed frame, shivering and hugging the blanket. Her girl's father only kept giving her cold medicine.

She said, "Not long ago, her first child had malaria and was taken to the hospital. She got the medicine and then she spent all her money. She doesn't have the money to take her second child."

It takes an hour or two to get to the hospital by car, but in most cases there is no transportation cost.

There are many places where support cannot be reached… Living on the road for over a month

Another village in Jakabad, Sindh.

The first relief supplies arrived a month after the flood damage.

Everyone in town came out. There is enough stock for everyone to receive, but the heart is impatient. Every time I enter one by one from the front, people in line are anxious.

In desperation and anxiety, they push each other, protest, and eventually armed police. I try to broadcast that I can't receive relief goods if I don't keep my turn, but they can't hear it.

Mohammad Qassim, interviewed by reporters, has 10 children.

He has been living on the road for a month already as his house is still submerged. He went back to the tent with difficulty carrying the flour and oil he had been given, saying that it was difficult to find food.

Villages isolated in the middle of the water are a problem...

The biggest problem is the isolated villages, which are difficult to access even by boat . There is so much water around you that you can't get out or get in easily.

The reporters went to an isolated village to deliver relief goods with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

After taking an amphibious car for 15 minutes to the boat, changing to a boat and entering the boat for 20 minutes, a village appeared.

The road was rough. It looked dangerous as there were downed telephone poles here and there, and it was not easy for boats to break through as the water went deep and shallow repeatedly. In addition, where there was even a little bit of grass, huge swarms of mosquitoes flocked to it.

Nabidan Megsi Village, where 40 households live.

Some were living on the roof, some in the yard, without household items. I don't know when the house will collapse, so I can't even go in.

Those who have nothing to eat go into the water and spread their nets to catch fish, but they cannot see the fish in still water.

Most of those who have lost their homes live in tents on the roads. It barely covers the sun, but it's not a house.

I just wait for the water to drain in the tent with all my livestock.

7.9 million people still live away from home... At Least Six Months to Relieve

More than 1,600 people have died in floods in Pakistan so far, a month later. 33 million people have been affected, and 7.9 million people are living away from home.

Now that the rain has stopped, the most serious are food shortages and epidemics, and some warned that 5 million people could contract water-borne infectious diseases. The hospitals are full of children with malaria, cholera, dengue fever and skin diseases, and many more cannot come to the hospital.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) provided nearly 2,000 tons of food, including flour, yellow beans, vegetable oil and salt, to flood-affected areas by September 11. We also provided

KBS listened closely to the situation in Pakistan from John Aileef, Asia Pacific Regional Head of the United Nations World Food Programme.