The temperature is dropping every passing day in the quake-hit areas of Ziarat threatening the lives of thousands of earthquake survivors who were spending nights in the tents provided to them.
'Whole nights our children cry due to the cold weather,' a 40-year-old survivor Manzoor Ahmed told Dawn in the Ahmedon area which was badly affected in the recent earthquake. He said the tents so far provided to the affected people cannot protect them from the freezing temperature.
'We need winterised tents immediately to protect our families from further misery,' another survivor Akhtar Mohammad said, adding that there was no shortage of food and other items but people were not getting winterised tents as needed.
Children are falling ill due to the severely chilly weather and the number of such children is increasing with every passing day.
'Countless children suffering from throat infection and chest congestion are arriving in the field hospitals every day for treatment,' a lady doctor visiting the earthquake-hit areas said. She said the freezing weather is threatening the health of children and women in the affected areas. However, the heath department denied that an epidemic was spreading in the affected areas and said that four lady doctors and physiologists were visiting those areas on a daily basis and providing medical treatment to the women and children.
However, official sources said that the provincial government and aid agencies were sending winterised tents and other relief goods for the earthquake survivors. They said the provincial government and the International Committee for the Red Cross have so far sent 2800 winterised tents in the worst-affected earthquake areas of Ziarat district while Muslim Hands dispatched some 800 shelter houses for the survivors. ICRC was also sending 2000 more winterised tents for the affected areas.
'We are making all out efforts to arrange winterised tents and shelter homes for the quake-hit areas to save the lives of quake survivors,' a senior official of the provincial government told, adding that Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has appealed to the federal and provincial governments, aid agencies and other organisations to send maximum number of winterised tents to protect earthquake survivors from the severe cold weather.
Fourteen teams comprising the Army, FC, officials of Revenue department and the local administration have completed the losses's survey in almost half of the quake-struck areas of Ziarat and Pishin districts.
According to official sources 75 per cent survey of 120 villages of the five union councils of Pishin and 49 villages out of 92 villages of four union councils of Ziarat districts had been completed.
They said the public heath engineering department has installed water filtration plants at five places in the affected areas to provide clean water to the people.
'Whole nights our children cry due to the cold weather,' a 40-year-old survivor Manzoor Ahmed told Dawn in the Ahmedon area which was badly affected in the recent earthquake. He said the tents so far provided to the affected people cannot protect them from the freezing temperature.
'We need winterised tents immediately to protect our families from further misery,' another survivor Akhtar Mohammad said, adding that there was no shortage of food and other items but people were not getting winterised tents as needed.
Children are falling ill due to the severely chilly weather and the number of such children is increasing with every passing day.
'Countless children suffering from throat infection and chest congestion are arriving in the field hospitals every day for treatment,' a lady doctor visiting the earthquake-hit areas said. She said the freezing weather is threatening the health of children and women in the affected areas. However, the heath department denied that an epidemic was spreading in the affected areas and said that four lady doctors and physiologists were visiting those areas on a daily basis and providing medical treatment to the women and children.
However, official sources said that the provincial government and aid agencies were sending winterised tents and other relief goods for the earthquake survivors. They said the provincial government and the International Committee for the Red Cross have so far sent 2800 winterised tents in the worst-affected earthquake areas of Ziarat district while Muslim Hands dispatched some 800 shelter houses for the survivors. ICRC was also sending 2000 more winterised tents for the affected areas.
'We are making all out efforts to arrange winterised tents and shelter homes for the quake-hit areas to save the lives of quake survivors,' a senior official of the provincial government told, adding that Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has appealed to the federal and provincial governments, aid agencies and other organisations to send maximum number of winterised tents to protect earthquake survivors from the severe cold weather.
Fourteen teams comprising the Army, FC, officials of Revenue department and the local administration have completed the losses's survey in almost half of the quake-struck areas of Ziarat and Pishin districts.
According to official sources 75 per cent survey of 120 villages of the five union councils of Pishin and 49 villages out of 92 villages of four union councils of Ziarat districts had been completed.
They said the public heath engineering department has installed water filtration plants at five places in the affected areas to provide clean water to the people.
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