Floods in Sindh Province

The monsoon rains that affected many parts of Pakistan in 2010, have again made life difficult for many millions of people in the Sindh Province. The number of people affected by the rains has reaches 5.3 million, with 1.2 million displaced. The principal challenge is loss of infrastructure - over 100 health facilities have been damaged or destroyed. Key health threats include water-bourne diseases and Malaria.

The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) estimates that of the 5 million Pakistanis affected by the floods, 1 million are women of reproductive age. More than 100,000 of these women are pregnant. Every day close to 350 women will go into labour, while 50 of them will have life threatening pregnancy-related complications that will need urgent medical assistance.

IHP continues to support the people of Pakistan, through the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Government of the Sindh Province, with ongoing shipments of medical aid.

Background

Since 2005, IHP has been active in Pakistan, working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Pakistan Government, to provide medical aid to millions of people affected by earthquakes, floods and internal displacement.

Last year's floods in Pakistan have been recorded by the UN as the worst disaster in the world, surpassing the combined scale of the Tsunami, trhe 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It affected over 21 million people, and 12 million people required treatment in medical centres and camps across the country. Through the generous support of the European healthcare industry, IHP was able to treatments for over 1 million children and adults, free of charge.

As a result of IHP's long-standing association with Pakistan, IHP recently met with Prime Minister Gilani, and has agreed to establish a five year programme to help build healthcare capacity across Pakistan.

IHP is working closely with the WHO, Pakistan Ministry of Health and Pakistan High Commission in London. Pakistan International Airways continues to provide free air freight to IHP for all its shipments to Pakistan from the UK, Europe and North America

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Please consider whether your company can donate any medicines. If you can help, please fill in a donation form here and contact Alex Harris - a.harris@ihpuk.org and +44 (0)7974 565426

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Each £1 donated enables £20 of medicines to go directly to the medical teams of all the major international aid agencies operating in the disaster zone.

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• Product Donations so Far

62 companies from 10 countries have committed over £30m of essential medicines for donation through IHP.

IHP is now working with Americares and our Health+Hope Alliance partners (Health Partners International of Canada, IHP Inc, and MAP International) to source medicines for Pakistan.

To date the following 53 companies (from UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the USA) have made bulk donations of medicines to IHP which will be sent to Pakistan in response to the floods: 3M, Abbott, Actavis, action medeor, Alliance Boots, Alliance Pharmaceuticals, Ambe Medical, AWD Pharma, Baxter, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Care Fusion, Dr Reddy’s, Durbin, EG Labo, Evonik, Focus Pharmaceuticals, Genus, Goldshield, GSK, Hydrachem, Janssen Cilag, Keyline Brands, Johnson & Johnson LifeScan, J & J Consumer/McNeil, Lafayette Pharmaceuticals, Mallinkrodt, Meda Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co, Merck Serono, Morningside, Nycomed, Orbis, Pierre Fabre, Pfizer, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaderm, Pharmascience, Proctor & Gamble, Ranbaxy, Ratiopharm, Roche, sanofi-aventis, Seven Seas, Stragen, Takeda, Technimede, PLIVA/TEVA, UCB, Universal Procurement Supplies, Vitabiotics, Wockhardt, Wightman & Parrish and Zydus.

In addition the following 9 donor companies have also provided medicines (alongside donations from many of the above companies), which have been included in the IHP emergency and oral health kits that have been sent: Edict, Galderma, Health Aid, Henry Schein, Holland & Barrett, Kent Pharmaceuticals, Lesmar, Tesco and Winthrop.