The Punjab chief minister issued further instructions to officials regarding relief camps, ordering them to ensure that they are livable and that supplies of food and medicine are available.

“Wherever you have set up relief camps, they are your responsibility,” CM Maryam said, addressing provincial officials.

She instructed health secretaries to dispatch field hospitals and ‘Clinics on Wheels’ to areas which are inundated or susceptible to outbreaks of waterborne diseases.