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ISLAMABAD â Earthquake survivors in Pakistan will start dying from lack of food within a month if the world fails to help, and women and children will be the worst hit, the World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.| Qazi better step up the pace of all those relief convoys... |
There are already early signs of nutritional deficiencies in remote mountain areas hit by the October 8 quake and weakened people will fall prey to disease, the UN agencyâs emergency coordinator Michael Jones told AFP. âIn one monthâs time we will start to see malnutrition-related diseases and we will start to see people dying, they will say from hunger or starvation but it will be from weakened bodies,â Jones said.| You might try releasing them from Ramadan fasting too... |
The WFP on Friday more than doubled the number of people it said needed food aid including vitamin-enhanced wheat flour, saying it now had to get supplies to 2.3 million before snow starts to fall in mid-November. The WFP says it needs another 100 million dollars. Food was already a problem in the quake zone before the quake hit, with around 60 per cent of children there being chronically malnourished before the earthquake and 10 per cent affected by wasting of the body, Jones said. |