With food, fresh water and shelter in desperately short supply Pakistan faces a humanitarian crisis following the floods. Jonathan Miller returns to Sindh to meet families struggling to survive.
Twenty-one million people affected. Half of them left homeless and thousands of children at risk of starvation.
They are now struggling to cope with lack of food and disease. Jonathan Miller.
The floods which devastated Pakistan have left vast swathes of people living in tent cities relying on aid and handouts. But many say they have been turned away from camps by charities overwhelmed by the tide of dispossessed
They are now struggling to cope with lack of food and disease. Doctors have warned the real catastrophe is moving much slower than the flood waters.
More than 100,000 children under the age of five are at risk of dying in the next six months due to severe malnutrition.
Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller – who reported the floods’ devastation over the summer – has returned to the town of Sukkur, around 200 miles north east of Karachi, to meet some of the families struggling to survive in the open.
This report contains scenes some viewers may find distressing.