A five-member team of Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent (IFRC) has left here for rain and flood affected areas in Sindh and Balochistan to conduct assessment of losses.
According to Secretary Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Kanwar Waseem here on Saturday, the field assessment and co-ordination team led by Ian Heigh is the highest body of its nature in the set up of IFRC. The IFRC has assigned a task of fact finding and assessment of losses to this team, which will stay for couple of days in Sindh before leaving for Balochistan.
In its first leg, the team will start its extensive survey of losses in Shahdadkot district, he added. It may be noted that mobile and relief teams of PRCS are already in action in various rain and flood affected areas in Sindh.