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We move in the first week, and we are still there in the third month

Flood response in Pakistan is not one operation. It is four, run in sequence, and most organisations only fund the first two.

Camps run back to back
0Camps run back to backDera Ghazi Khan deployment
Patients seen
0+Patients seenFree consultation and medicine
Provinces covered
0Provinces coveredSouth Punjab and Balochistan

How a deployment actually runs

Written down because improvising each time costs days, and in a flood response days are measured in cases of cholera.

  1. First 24 hours

    Assessment, not announcement

    Two people go in before anything is loaded. They confirm which roads hold, where displaced families have actually gathered and what the district health office still has. Nothing is procured until that report comes back.

  2. Day 2 to day 7

    Clinic and clean water

    A medical team deploys with a standing drug list built for what floods produce, gastroenteritis, skin infection, snakebite, respiratory illness and untreated chronic disease. Clean water goes in alongside it, because the outbreak follows the water, not the injury.

  3. Week 2 onward

    Food that lasts a month

    Ration distribution is run through local volunteers who know which households have lost everything. Bulk purchase before the local market price climbs is the difference between feeding one family and three.

  4. The months after

    The part nobody photographs

    Camps continue after the water recedes, when the coverage has moved on and the illness has not. This is the phase most appeals never fund, and the phase that decides whether people recover.

The record from the last flood

Places, not percentages. These are the districts our teams worked in and what they did there.

Four medical camps in a week as the Indus rises at Taunsa Sharif

Teams led by General Secretary Dr Nasir Hamdani moved into Tehsil Taunsa Sharif as the water came up, running camps out of whatever building still had a dry floor.

Taunsa Sharif, Dera Ghazi Khan

Mangrotha, a village on the edge of Taunsa city, taken by the flood

Homes built of mud and cane do not survive standing water. Our teams reached Mangrotha with rations, clean water and a clinical team while the ground was still soft.

Mangrotha, South Punjab

More than 500 patients given free consultation and medicine in one deployment

Senior doctors ran four camps back to back. Every consultation, every test we could carry and every prescription was free at the point of care.

Dera Ghazi Khan

Rations reach flood affected families across South Punjab and Balochistan

Distribution ran through local volunteers who knew the households, not through a list handed down from a city office.

South Punjab and Balochistan

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