| After the entrance of more flood tides from three sides into Jaffarabad, water level has risen by 13-15 feet in many areas, particularly in the district headquarters Dera Allah Yar, while a Provincial District Management Authority-compiled report confirmed the displacement of 1.1 million people and deaths of 40 persons by raging floods in Balochistan. On Sunday, dozens of flood victims — most of them children suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases — were brought to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta hospitals. Doctors told media that due to acute shortage of required medicines at the hospitals and medical camps, fear of deaths of a large number of such patients had emerged. During the last few days after the worst-ever floods hit Balochistan's districts, over 52 persons infected with waterborne diseases have died, the major cause of which is being said to be the non-provision of timely medical treatment and non-availability of necessary medicines at camps and hospitals. |