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Nearly 1200 medical camps to be setup in flood-hit areas: Qadir Patel

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ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel on Sunday announced establishing 1,200 medical camps across the country in flood-hit areas as victims now fight water-borne diseases in the affected areas, ARY NEWS reported.

In a statement issued today, the minister said that 1200 medical camps across the country will provide basic health facilities besides also providing medicines and vaccination facilities to the affectees. “We will be providing medicines for skin diseases, eye infection, and diarrhea,” Qadir Patel said.

As many as 400 medical camps will also be established in eight districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Dera Ismail Khan, Peshawar, and Tank, 300 camps will be setup in six districts of Balochistan, and 95 camps in Karachi.

The World Health Organization has raised concerns over the spread of waterborne diseases among flood victims. Nearly half a million flood-displaced people are living in relief camps.



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