(WASHINGTON DC -- AUGUST 17, 2010) This is an emergency community alert. A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province. Your help is needed to help resolve an already in progress humanitarian disaster. Please donate to Imamia Medics International, an official United Nations recognized organization, that is working to bring medical relief and supplies to those most in need, by clicking here. IMI is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, so all of your donations are tax deductible.  Courtesy BBC UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep sorrow during his visit to flood-hit areas of Pakistan. He also asked the international community to hurry in its supply and distribution of aid. “A heart-wrenching day for me and for my delegation” said Ban Ki-moon. “I will never forget the destruction and sufferings I have witnessed today,… In the past I have visited scenes of many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this. The scale of this disaster is so large and there are so many people in so many places in so much need.” Ban Ki-moon also made a helicopter flight over four districts of Punjab, the worst affected region, considered the granary of the country, now reduced to a swamp, with crops totally destroyed. The United Nations is now calling for nearly half a billion dollars in international aid for Pakistan, in the face of a weird resistance on the part of the world community to step up and help. When Pakistan faced a relatively minor security threat from a small guerrilla movement of Pakistani Taliban in the northwest, the world community ponied up billions in aid. This much more devastating flood is not generating the same enthusiasm for helping the country. Aljazeera English has video on the disappointment in the Pakistani public at the government’s failure to distribute aid in a timely way and efficiently, and at Pakistani President Zardari’s trips abroad. As Pakistan’s massive flooding continues, Some 500,000 people have been forced to evacuate the Sindhi city of Jacobabad, suddenly finding themselves homeless. Ordinarily this sort of catastrophe would be news in itself, but with 4 million or so Pakistanis displaced, it is just one more piece of bad news. In one area of Sindh, 25,000 villages are under water and 1.6 million people have been marooned.
ITN Reports that much of Pakistan now lacks clean water, a major public health dilemma that could especially harm infants. Imamia Medics International responded immediately to the disaster and opened the first emergency medical relief clinic on August 2, 2010. Within days, they expanded to operate eight medical camps across Punjab—including in Shahpur, Haji Shah, Naushera, Qasimabad/Sahiwal, Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Chuk #1160-DDA Layyah. Each of these camps is operating 24 hours a day, with 2-3 medical doctors and 2-3 volunteers on hand, and averages between 300-500 patients daily. Additional camps are being planned in Sindh: Khairpur, Dadu, and Sukkur. With our robust network of local staff and partners already on the ground -- and years of experience responding to emergencies inPakistan – IMI is well-positioned to help families in dire need.
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