{"id":74552,"date":"2025-10-01T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/01\/floods-now-disease-cholera-dengue-malaria-stalks-millions-in-pakistan"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:00:08","slug":"crowded-camps-stagnant-water-and-not-enough-doctors-first-the-floods-now-disease-stalks-millions-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74552","title":{"rendered":"Crowded camps, stagnant water and not enough doctors: first the floods, now disease stalks millions in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the waters recede, a surge in cases of cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and dengue has compounded the misery of people who have already seen their homes and crops disappear<\/p>\n<p>On a sweltering afternoon in Head Muhammad Wala, a riverside village near the Pakistani city of Multan, Rubina Nawaz is nursing a sick child in a temporary home of damp blankets and plastic sheeting.<\/p>\n<p>Her two-room house disappeared under flood waters in September when the Chenab River burst its banks in the torrential rains that have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/aug\/30\/pakistan-punjab-province-deadly-floods-disease\">deluging parts of Pakistan since late June<\/a>. More than 6 million people have been affected, with nearly 1,000 killed, including 250 children, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/09\/1165864\">UN<\/a>. Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/09\/1165864#:~:text=More%20than%20six%20million%20people,already%20stretched%20to%20their%20limit.\">2.5 million people have been displaced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/01\/floods-now-disease-cholera-dengue-malaria-stalks-millions-in-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the waters recede, a surge in cases of cholera, diarrhoea, malaria and dengue has compounded the misery of people who have already seen their homes and crops disappearOn a sweltering afternoon in Head Muhammad Wala, a riverside village near the Paki&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3366,"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":[3410,455,313,59,346,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cholera","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-health","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\/74552","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\/3366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74552\/revisions\/74553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}