United Nations, Sep 3 : The organization has continued to assist Pakistan’s response to the devastating floods by offering food, clean water and other emergency relief items A spokesperson for the organization said.UN team together with human rights partners, has delivered food aid to over 300,000 people, and drinking water for 55,000, Eri Kaneko, the associate spokesperson of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, told a press conference here on Friday.
“Our colleagues also set up 14 mobile clinics that provide health medical services in the affected zones,” Kaneko said.
Furthermore, UN team and humanitarian partners have handed out more than 71,000 items of emergency relief like tents, plastic tarpaulins blankets, cooking stoves, solar lamps , and sleeping mats to host and refugee communities in the country.
Access remains an obstacle to of the distribution of aid as well as the capability of people to leave their homes and seek safer places, Kaneko said, adding that in total, more than 5 000 km of roads have been destroyed or damaged.
According to the spokesperson more than 1.1 million homes have been destroyed or damaged in Pakistan as well as more than 470,000 live in camps.
The record-breaking rains of the monsoon have submerged one-third of Pakistan, killing over a thousand people since June, unleashing massive floods which have swept away large areas of crucial crops and destroyed or damaged more than one million homes.
