Islamabad, Europe Brief News- UN children’s agency Unicef said more children were at risk of dying from disease in Pakistan due to the shortage of clean water.
“There is now a high risk of water-borne, deadly diseases spreading rapidly, diarrhoea, cholera, dengue, malaria,” Unicef’s Abdullah Fadil said. “There is therefore a risk of many more child deaths.”
Access to clean water was the biggest problem for those trying to find food and shelter, said medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres.
The government met on Saturday to assess the scale of the floods which have submerged a third of the country.
At least one in three of the victims of the flooding are said to be children.
Government minister Ahsan Iqbal said that the country did not have the resources to deal with the unprecedented crisis.
The flooding was the worst climate-induced disaster in recent world history, he said.
Some 1.4 million homes had been destroyed in record monsoon rains which have affected more than 33 million people.
Estimates suggest the floods have caused at least $10bn (£8.5bn) of damage in Pakistan, and many people face serious food shortages. Nearly half of the country’s crops have been destroyed.
The country was already suffering from an economic crisis.
