‘What can we do?’: Waterborne diseases continue plaguing Pakistan 2 years after devastating floods

Orientul Mijlociu

In a village in Sindh province, every family has at least one child suffering from skin disease, diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery or malaria. SUJAWAL, Pakistan: Two of Fatima Bibi’s children have died of mosquito-borne disease malaria, and she fears her three-year-old will be next. Her toddler Fizza has contracted the life-threatening disease for the second time in a month. The local hospital sent her home with some medicine, but her mother fears that it is too little, too late. Fatima lives with