KARACHI, Sept 17: While many people have already lost their lives due to the breakout of water-borne diseases, the stagnant rainwater poses a serious threat to many more in Hyderabad.

This was stated by Jamaat-i-Islami’s Al-Khidmat Welfare Society (Karachi) Secretary General Dr Tabassum Jafri while talking to a group of journalists at a gathering held here on Sunday on the occasion of dispatch of relief goods for the rain-affected people of Sindh, particularly Hyderabad.

He said that the people in distress badly needed relief goods and assistance on an emergency basis for survival as hundreds of families were desperately looking for food, safe water and essential items of daily use after losing all their belongings to the recent rains and flooding. He pointed out that these families had been rendered homeless by the flooding which had swept away all their belongings and rendered houses and hutments uninhabitable.

He also condemned failure of the city government Hyderabad in mitigating the sufferings of local population by at least draining out the water accumulating across the city for more than 11 days.

Dr Jafri that three consignments of flour, sugar, rice, pulses, cooking oil, dry milk, bottled water and biscuits, besides other essential items, had so far been dispatched to Hyderabad.