{"id":48707,"date":"2022-09-21T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/it-is-beyond-bleak-pakistan-floods-impacted-16m-children-says-unicef"},"modified":"2022-09-21T21:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:13:48","slug":"it-is-beyond-bleak-pakistan-floods-affecting-16m-children-says-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48707","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It is beyond bleak\u2019: Pakistan floods affecting 16m children, says Unicef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating conditions were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have so far killed more than 1,500 people<\/p>\n<p>All four of Haliman\u2019s daughters have fallen sick after she left her flood-ravaged house in her village in Qambar Shahdadkot district in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Two of her daughters have a recurring fever and two have skin diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never seen such diseases. The skin on my eldest daughter\u2019s feet is peeling off,\u201d said Haliman, sitting on a charpoy in a girls\u2019 college in Larkana, where she had sought refuge along with a hundred others. \u201cIt is because of the floods and she waded through the flood water with me for hours. It is not only her feet, but her back, thighs and neck have bumpy rashes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/it-is-beyond-bleak-pakistan-floods-impacted-16m-children-says-unicef\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastating conditions were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have so far killed more than 1,500 peopleAll four of Haliman\u2019s daughters have fallen sick after she left her flood-ravaged house in her village in Qambar Shahdadkot district in the Sindh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,65,455,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48708,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48707\/revisions\/48708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}