More than 25,000 expectant mothers were affected by floods across KP says health dept
PESHAWAR
A total of 15,000 expectant mothers were screened at special medical camps for maternal and child health held at 13 different flood-hit districts of the province, said a handout issued by the health department.
Organized by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department, these medical camps provided screening facilities to 15,000 pregnant women in Swat, Chitral, Lower Kohistan and Dera Ismail Khan and other flooded districts of the province.
According to the health department, these medical camps extended medical services to expectant mothers and newborns.
It said that more than three hundred medical camps have been established so far in the remote areas of the province where flash floods have wreaked havoc. The medical camps under the supervision of the provincial health department provided free medicines and other essential medicines to women and newborns.
According to KP health department statistics, the recent floods have affected more than 25,000 pregnant women across parts of the province. “The health department medical camps for maternal and newborn children provided medical assistance to 20 thousand mothers,” it added. It said that the department concerned has tasked Lady Health workers with monitoring and reporting maternal and child cases among the flood-victims. Health department added that the screening rate in the medical campus has been decreasing with each passing day and people displaced by flood are returning to their homes.
KP health department in a statement added that the provincial government has started rapid assessment of health centers across the province and rehabilitation work on damaged health facilities would be started very soon.
