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Pakistan Facing Health Emergency as Climate Change Cause Floods

Floods have killed 1,700 people, caused $30 billion in damages
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By Faseeh Mangi

October 7, 2022 at 9:28 AM UTC

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Pakistan is facing a health emergency with diseases rising after flooding inundated a third of the country’s land, the nation’s climate change minister said.

“We are still in the life saving phase after 17 hard weeks,” Sherry Rehman said in an interview to Bloomberg TV. Malaria and other water-based diseases is the next crisis, while women are giving birth in unhygienic conditions, she said. About 21 million are still in acute need of help.