Officials of the Emergency and Disaster Management (AFAD) and the Turkish Red Crescent announced the start of setting up tents for those affected by the devastating floods in Pakistan. It is planned that the number of tents will reach about 500 tents.
The Emergency and Disaster Management (AFAD) and the Red Crescent of Turkey continue to set up tents for those affected by the floods in Sindh province, southern Pakistan.
AFAD officials told Anadolu Agency that its teams began setting up tents in the village of Karimabad in Karachi, in cooperation with the Rafah House of Peace Endowment.
They confirmed that the administration plans to set up about 500 tents.
In the same context, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent mission in Pakistan, Ibrahim Jamilo, told Anadolu Agency that they are continuing efforts to set up tents for those affected by the floods in the "Thatta" area of Sindh.
He stressed that they are working on the ground in different regions of Balochistan and Sindh provinces, and that they have distributed a lot of humanitarian aid throughout the country.
He said, "Health centers were damaged in the areas hit by the floods, so we plan to establish mobile health units to conduct medical examinations for patients under the supervision of a doctor."
And on Wednesday, the National Disaster Management Authority in Pakistan announced that the number of victims of the devastating floods that hit the country since mid-June has risen to 1481.
The monsoon season in Pakistan usually brings heavy rains, but this year was the "worst" in years.
And at the end of last August, Pakistan's Minister of Climate Affairs Sherry Rehman revealed that "a third of the country was completely submerged" in the wake of the unprecedented floods.
She explained that everything "turned into one ocean", as there is no dry land to draw water to.
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