This seasonal wind and rainfall due to start later this month, could raise the threat of disease outbreaks in displaced and host communities.
WHO is supplying ambulances, building new warehouses and medicines to help those displaced by fighting between government forces and insurgents. Health hubs are being established in Peshawar and Mardan where environmental engineers, pharmacists, disease surveillance and logistic officers will be stationed.
Dr. Khalif Bile, WHO representative in Pakistan, said a massive logistics effort was needed to deliver and safely store life saving drugs and equipment. Equally important, he added, was the need to strengthen the system of ferrying patients by ambulance from lower to higher levels of care.
The UN health agency will also increase its number of female doctors and health workers to treat women in the IDP camps and host communities.
WHO plans to supply more drugs to treat three million people this year, but it has received less than half of the amount requested. Health risks will increase, the agency warns, with the continued movement of people making it harder for the affected populations to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake.
Jocelyn Sambira, United Nations Radio.
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