The situation of an internal displacement of people from Jacobabad, Kashmore, Shikarpur, Sukkur and the affected Kacha areas of District Khairpur is going on. Many civil society organizations and the Govt. of Sindh are taking emergency steps to help support the IDPs who have been affected by the flood and displaced from their home districts.
Since the magnitude of displacement is quite high, district Khairpur is housing many more IPDs who are coming from above districts. The current shift in policy of Govt. is announced recently that all the IDPs who are occupying Govt. owned buildings would be facilitated to shift in Karachi, so that proper mechanism of helping people in terms of food, shelter, medical assistance, cloths etc could be managed at one place.
IDPs willing to be shifted to Karachi are being facilitated by the district government Khairpur free of charge and trying to vacate the Govt. owned buildings particularly schools so as to initiate classes for those students who used to study being the local recipient of education.
In Khairpur, as it is already mentioned that IRC teams are extensively busy at couple of fronts and supporting the emergency activities.
Being the district coordinator in food committee formed by DCO-Khairpur IRC is supplying draw food items to the flood affected kacha areas that are existing in those taluka which are adversely hit by running water. IRC is also keeping the record of all the supplies received from various channels and the supplies distributed in the field. IRC team is available all the time at DCO house where the warehouse is setup.
Besides this, IRC has adopted three camps in Khairpur whose one by one explanation is mentioned below:
Camp-1 (Govt. Boys Primary School at Mori, Taluka Kingri)
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 250 out of which, there are 50 Females, 47 Male and 153 children.
Now camp life has become normal as IRC is putting its best possible efforts to support these people in terms of food, coordinating their medical needs, provided cloths and possible reasonable material for their daily use.
As reported earlier that there were two females who were in their advance stage to deliver baby. IRC team together with RHC- (Rural Health Centre) kept these two females in strict observation. Out of these two women, one has delivered a baby boy at RHC under normal condition. The other one Ms. Salemat is in her advance stage and we in a team are keeping her in observation. Networking with volunteer doctors is going on, a team from Agha Khan Karachi visited the camp and checked the IDPs, later they found out that there are some viral diseases attacked the people wherein Gastro, Hepatitis and influenza are worth mentioning. Mr. Rano Pahore was found out being the affectee of Hepatitis, doctors advised us to shift him to RHC for his proper treatment. Through RHC- Mr Rano Pahore has been shifted from camp to Khairpur and being admitted in TB-Centre as the wards in civil hospital have already been over crowded.
Ms. Nafisa Shah (MNA) Khairpur visited the camp met with IPDs inquired about their facilities in camp role of IRC. She turned satisfied and appreciated the efforts of IRC team.
Camp-2 (Govt. Boys Primary School) Shah Latif Colony Khairpur
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 119 out of which, there are 34 Females, 27 Male and 58 children.
The IDPs belong to Nindwani community have come from Taluka Tangwani district Kashmore.
IRC has adopted this camp for the last few days and have started providing cooked food for two times, lunch and dinner whereas reasonable material has been provided to them for morning breakfast. A few days back an organization called SRSO provided them the raw food items such as flour, 50 KG bag and Oil 4.5 KG.
Since, they were newly settled and requiring some basic things cloth, slippers etc some of the family members sold out their belongings and the food items given by SRSO and ensured the things for their daily use.
These IDPs are in need of utensils, cloths of children with some other items of daily use; IRC is providing whatever is possible. For breakfast, some containers have been provided along with tea, sugar and flour to those families who didn’t receive any kind of aid from any other organization except IRC. The sanitary condition is not encouraging as the current toilets of schools are non functional except one. IRC is being in touch with Sindh Urban Corporation for their repair and cleanliness.
The health profile of this camp is also meek; IRC arranged a visit of LHWs to this camp for quick medical check up of females. It was found out that a woman namely Naimat is an advance stage to deliver baby. Within IDPs and at Camp level a system is developed in a way so that any medical emergency could be addressed immediately.
The hand pump facility in this camp requires an immediate attention, Mr. Ali Madad (IRC-camp) In charge will get the hand pump issue fixed on urgent basis. IRC has provided a good plastic tank for water storage that has the capacity of more than 150lts which will be used by IDPs in their daily use of water.
Camp-3 (Govt. Girls Primary School) Shah Latif Colony Khairpur
The current figure of IDPs in camp is 36 out of which, there are 09 Females, 13 Male and 14 children.
The IDPs belong to Nindwani community have come from Taluka Tangwani district Kashmore.
IRC is providing two times cooked food whereas breakfast is prepared by IDPs by themselves whose material is provided by IRC.
Networking efforts are being done so that medical facility from District Health Department and some support in terms of utensils from DCO office could be ensured at camps.
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