{"id":57286,"date":"2023-08-05T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/05\/a-year-on-the-devastating-long-term-effects-of-pakistans-floods-are-revealed"},"modified":"2023-08-05T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T06:00:36","slug":"a-year-on-the-devastating-long-term-effects-of-pakistans-floods-are-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57286","title":{"rendered":"A year on, the devastating long-term effects of Pakistan\u2019s floods are revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s health and economy ruined as Islamic charity says rich nations must compensate those suffering worst of climate crisis<\/p>\n<p>A year after Pakistan\u2019s worst floods in living memory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org.uk\/one-year-since-pakistan-floods-climate-justice-is-urgently-needed\/\">a report by Islamic Relief Worldwide<\/a> has revealed the devastating long-term impact on people, especially children, and argued that rich nations must compensate those countries most affected by the climate emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Islamic Relief who talked to people in the flood-affected areas found 40% of the children they surveyed had stunted growth and 25% were underweight as families struggle to access food and healthcare. About 80% of mothers reported sickness among children, with outbreaks of diarrhoea, malaria and dengue fever increasing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/aug\/05\/a-year-on-the-devastating-long-term-effects-of-pakistans-floods-are-revealed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s health and economy ruined as Islamic charity says rich nations must compensate those suffering worst of climate crisisA year after Pakistan\u2019s worst floods in living memory, a report by Islamic Relief Worldwide has revealed the devastating lon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"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":[2331,455,313,59,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","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\/57286","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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57286\/revisions\/57287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}