We need your help to support LRBT’s mobile teams operating in the flood-devastated areas of Pakistan.

To donate to the Flood Relief appeal, click here or send a cheque payable to the “Graham Layton Trust” to GLT Flood Relief, 24 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TQ.

LRBT’s Relief Activities for the Flood Affected Areas

FLOODS ACROSS PAKISTAN 2010
This has been the heaviest rainfall since the deluge of 1929. Thousands of homes have been levelled, infrastructure (bridges roads etc.) & businesses washed away, livestock drowned and crops ruined. 14 million people have been affected half of them being children. The death toll from the country’s worst floods in living memory topped 1,800 as outbreak of water-borne disease emerged and penniless survivors sought refuge from the raging torrents. The devastating flood, which has played havoc with human life and property, has also inflicted a colossal $1 billion loss to agriculture in the Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa alone. Losses to roads, bridges, housing, livestock and property are additional. The UN estimates losses ranging in billions of dollars.

The flood waters are now approaching Sindh and the situation is worsening.

SITUATION

Those affected by the flood are in dire need of the following:

1. Shelter
2. Food items
3. Clothing
4. Cooking utensils
5. Fodder for their live stock
6. Medical treatment
7. Drinking Water

LRBT’S ACTIVITIES

We need your help to support LRBT’s mobile teams operating in the flood-devastated areas of Pakistan.

LRBT's seven medical teams are treating victims of the floods at free Medical Relief Camps within the catchment area of LRBT hospitals throughout Pakistan. LRBT’s teams consist of locals who know the area, speak the language and are familiar with the customs. LRBT is fortunate in enjoying goodwill resulting from its work over the past quarter of a century; we do not foresee any security problems in the areas of operation.

LRBT is treating the following diseases:

• Diarrhoea
• Gastroenteritis
• Cholera
• Malaria
• Vomiting
• Skin infection
• Cough, fever
• Eye infections

The medical teams consist of one doctor, two paramedics, one driver and one cleaner, serving the areas below for 15 days – this period can be extended if required:

The Medical Relief camps are set up either in collaboration with other NGO/government/private individuals or in the tents purchased by LRBT. LRBT Medical Relief Camps are publicised among the affected with the help of locals, announcements in mosques and by the placement of banners; Shell is contributing by advertising at its retail stations.

Medical Relief Camps

Click here to download 'Glimpses of LRBT Activities at the Flood Affected Areas', a PDF containing a series of photographs of LRBT's current work.

The medical team examines the patient, diagnoses and dispenses medicines and water purifying tablets and, in the case of those patients requiring eye surgery, refers them to the nearest of LRBT’s 16 hospitals and 40 clinics. The team will also vaccinate those affected to prevent cholera once the vaccine is available.

Preventing outbreaks of disease is paramount, especially water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and typhoid. LRBT is distributing 700,000 water purification tablets, each of which can purify 5 litres of water. Each patient is issued with 20 tablets along with instructions for use. LRBT is regularly monitoring and replenishing stock of these tablets and other medicines.

In the 10 days from 5 August, LRBT treated 9,263 men, women and children. To place this in context: Army medical teams have treated 2,000 patients in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa compared to LRBT’s 2,595.

To see where your donations will go, please see the table below which gives a transparent breakdown of how many people have already been helped. LRBT keeps diligent records to provide reports on the money spent and the number of lives saved.

KHYBER - PAKHTUN KHWA
The flood devastatation has been most acute in Khyber – Pakthunkhwa where hundreds of thousands of people have been marooned by floodwaters. It is estimated that 2.5 million people have been rendered homeless. Roads, bridges especially in Swat & Malakand division have been washed away. Communications in some cases is only possible by boat & helicopter.

GLIMPSES:

PUNJAB

Devastation in the Punjab has also been significant . The areas affected are Mianwali, Bhakkar, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Kot Addu, D.G. Khan, Rajanpur, and Rahimyar Khan,Districts.. The floods have damaged an estimated fifth of the cropland

GLIMPSES:

SINDH

The floodwaters are now in Sindh, having passed through Guddu Barrage and are approaching Sukkur. They are expected to impact on Kashmore, Ghotki, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Larkana Nawabshah, Noushero Feroz, Dadu and Hyderabad Districts.

To donate to the Flood Relief appeal, click here or send a cheque payable to the “Graham Layton Trust” to GLT Flood Relief, 24 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4TQ.

Please give what you can to help our relief efforts by circulating our appeal among your contacts.

Thank you.

'Glimpses of LRBT Activities at the Flood Affected Areas', a series of photographs of LRBT's current work.