Pakistan Red Crescent Society Sindh Branch has organized 4th meeting of monsoon flood operation 2011 and 14th meeting of integrated Recovery Programme flood 2010 on Wednesday, January 18 in Karachi. Meeting attended by Provincial Secretary Kanwar Waseem, field delegates from International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC),International committee of Red Cross (ICRC), Danish [...]
A year after devastating monsoon floods hit Pakistan, many of the more than 18 million affected people — almost half of them children — are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives against a background of dwindling humanitarian funding and fear of new floods. The floods, which at their worst covered up to one-fifth of the [...]
One year after Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to deliver comprehensive reproductive health care services as part of its humanitarian response. In August 2010, the Fund’s immediate response after the floods struck was to support basic reproductive health services for the displaced. Now, during the recovery phase, the [...]
Representatives of World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) have shown concern over growing cases of polio in the country. Addressing a Press Conference held recently at a local hotel in Karachi, Dr. Hussein A Gezairy, WHO Regional Director for Eastern Mediterranean Region along with Dan Rohrmann, UNICEF representative said Pakistan was [...]
