Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country – August 17, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO)

Daily Assessment Updates on Torrential Rain and Flood Situation in Pakistan

August 17, 2010

Overview:

Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,343, with 1,588 people now reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 722,000 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come.

Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab.

The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers.

Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities  and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI).

In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org.

Daily update for 17th August 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below:

SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till August 17, 2010

Keeping in view the identified desperate needs of affected communities in Sindh, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial level in Sindh, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. Hitherto, following activities have been carried out and reported:

Sindh Province:

Shikarpur District:

SPO Hyderabad Team besides continuation of its relief services in the below given Relief Camps have also carried out joint assessment of existing relief camps in Shikarpur Districts. A comprehensive report in this regard is under compilation and meanwhile we share below brief information regarding setup relief camps in District Shikarpur, providing location of these camps, number of affected individuals living in these camps and contact number:

S.No	Camp Location	Total Population	Male	Female	Focal Persons for Camp Management Committee	Contact # of Focal Person
1.	Govt;b Boys High School Haji  Fateh  Muhammad, District Shikarpur	640	210	424	A Raheem	0331-3208144
2.	Madarsa near petrol pump Camp, UC-5, Shikarpur	163	80	83	Hazoor Bux	0306-3398078
3.	Otaq (dayo mohalla), SultanKot, District Shikarpur	189	95	94	M Ramazan Dayo	0300-31219965
4.	SultanKot, District Shikarpur	185	79	106	Waheed katpar	0333-7263974
5.	Railway Station Shikarpur, back side	350	150	200	Hajan Kalhoro
6.	Govt Primary Bboys School Railway Station, Shikarpur	339	64	83	Ghous Bux Junejo	0333-7271703
7.	Govt Primary Sindhi School Saddar, Shikarpur				Zahid Soomro	0332-680895
8.	Govt Primary Urdu School Saddar, Shikarpur	1099	149	950	Hanif Soomro
9.	Govt  Girls Primary School Railway Colony, Shikarpur	18	8	10	Muhammad Ali	0300-9197244
10	High School No.1,  Shikarpur	909	396	513	Haq Nawaz Pathan
11	Railway Station, front side,   Shikarpur	31	12	19	Mohsin Ali

 

Brief of Relief Services for Flood Affectees of Shikarpur  continued by SPO Team in different Relief Camps is provided below:

1.Relief Camp at Physical Education College, Sukkur.

SPO with the support of its partner organizations and individual philanthropists, providing three times meal to 1330 displaced individuals from different parts of Shikarpur district at Relief Camp established at Physical Education College, Sukkur.

2.Relief Camp at Main Bus Stop Sukkur:

SPO with the support of its partner organizations and individual philanthropists, providing three times meal to 700 displaced individuals from different parts of Shikarpur district at Relief Camp established at Main Bus Stop, Sukkur.

3.Relief Camp at Railway Primary School, Shikarpur:

SPO with the support of its partner organizations and individual philanthropists, providing three times meal to 345 displaced individuals from different parts of Shikarpur district at Relief Camp established at Railway Primary School, Shikarpur.

SPO with the support of UNICEF is planning to implement a WASH project in Shikarpur district wherein 120 Hand Pumps, 70 Dry Pit Latrines, 15 Electric Motor will be installed in affected areas and 2000 Hygiene Kits, and 200 Jerry Cans will be distributed among the affected households.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province:

D.I. Khan District

SPO D.I. Khan has completed distribution of 300 families with the support of SDC in following villages of Chodwan Watershed Tehsil Daraban:

Distribution Detail of Food & Non Food items in Chodwan watershed Tehsil Daraban District DIKhan
S No	Name of Village	No of HH	Date of Distribution
1	Kot Tagga	118	6-Aug-10
2	Basti Molian	22	6-Aug-10
3	Gara Abdullah	100	10-Aug-10
4	Chodwan	50	10-Aug-10
5	Gara Akhunzada	10	10-Aug-10
Total		300

SPO D.I. Khan beside serving lead organizations for carrying out carrying assessment in D.I. Khan and carrying out relief activities in selected areas, also support partners organizations in distribution of food Items in different villages. Details of this relief goods distribution through partner organizations is given below:

1. SPO DI. Khan in collaboration of Gomal Islahi Tanzeem provided cooked food to 500 families in Villages Gara Hayat,Shorekot on self help basis.Please find enclosed pictures of that collaboration.

2.SPO D.I. Khan provided technical support in identifying area and provided transportation to Partner Organization RONAQ NGO in distributing 750 packs of cooked food to 750 flood affectees of Shore Kot and Gara Hayat most flood affected villages

3.SPO D.I. Khan provided transportation support to Partner Political Party Jamat-e-Islami in order to provide cooked food to 2000 flood affectees in Village Daraban and Chodwan.

Naushehra District

Keeping in view the identified health care needs in the area, SPO team organized various Mobile Medical Camps in affected areas of District Naushehra. Details these mobile camps along with number of patients treated is provided below:

Union Council	Village	Male	Female	Children	Total patients	Diseases/comments
Deri Kati Khel	Khut Kalay	31	72	113	216	Skin allergy, Dirrheal, upper respiratory, eyes and urinary tract infections
Aman Garh	Aman Garh	21	56	71	148	Skin allergy, Dirrheal, upper respiratory, eyes and urinary tract infections
Aza Khel	Aza Khel Paien	14	32	57	103	Skin allergy and respiratory infection
Pir paie	Pir paie	–	–		–	Camp not done, already camps set up in Pir paie
Khat Kalay	Akramabad	18	34	50	102	Skin allergy, conjunctivitis, upper respiratory tract infection and dirrhea was common
Mughlai	Mia eesa	5	111	64	180	urinary and respiratory infection, skin allergy, dirrhea was common
		89	305	355	749