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According to a spokesperson, the United Nations has continued to support Pakistan’s response to the devastating floods by providing food, clean water, and other emergency relief supplies.
According to Eri Kaneko, associate spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN team and humanitarian partners have provided food aid to 300,000 people and clean water to 55,000 people.
Kaneko added, “Our colleagues have also deployed 14 mobile clinics to provide health care services in impacted areas.”
Furthermore, the UN team and humanitarian partners have delivered over 71,000 emergency relief items to refugee and host communities in the country, including tents, plastic tarpaulins, cooking stoves, blankets, solar lamps, and sleeping mats.
Access remains a major barrier to the delivery of aid and the ability of people to flee their homes to safer locations, according to Kaneko, who added that over 5,000 km of roads and 243 bridges have been damaged or destroyed.
According to the spokesperson, over 1.1 million homes in Pakistan have been damaged or destroyed, and over 470,000 people are living in camps.
Since June, record monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, killing over a thousand people and causing powerful floods that have washed away swaths of vital crops and damaged or destroyed over a million homes.
Source:OCN
