A fresh relief consignment from the United Kingdom for flood affected people reached Chaklala Airbase on Saturday night. The consignment amounting to 5 million would be channelled through the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) to mitigate sufferings of the affectees.
The UK's contributions would provide food, shelter, water, sanitation and health care to thousands of affected people. The aid is consisted of approximately 136,000 hygiene kits, 4,560 toilets, 336,000 bars of sanitising soap, 270,000 buckets/Jerry cans, 400,000 water purification powder sachets and 800,000 water purification tablets to help prevent the spread of diseases among the people affected by the floods.
Speaking on the occasion, DFID's Head of Pakistan Office George Turkington said "These are the worst floods that Pakistan has ever seen and Britain is supporting the government of Pakistan's work to provide all the necessary things to the people effected by floods." He said UK is also assisting Pakistan to provide new bridges replacing some of those washed away in the flash floods.
Meanwhile, speaking from Sierra Leone by phone, UK Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell said "I know many British people are deeply concerned by the terrible suffering caused by the ongoing monsoon floods in Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is leading the relief efforts and the United Kingdom (UK) is ready to help in any way we can."
The Secretary said UK's contribution to the emergency relief effort would fight against disease and further deaths by providing safe drinking water, food, medical care and other essential items to the affectees.