ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary Health, Khushnood Akhtar Lashari, on Saturday said there was a lack of doctors, paramedics and other staff in flood-affected areas. He said the government was working to overcome the situation.
Speaking to media representatives, Lashari said the National Volunteer Program had been launched to cater to the demand in which more than 2,000 doctors had already been registered.
He said 45,74000 cases of diarrhoea, malaria, skin and other diseases had been registered in affected areas but there was no fear of any outbreak.
Meanwhile, a representative of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the agency had distributed medicines to two million affected persons and had medicines stocked for another four million affected persons. He said fear still existed of outbreaks of diseases.
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