Waiting list of flood victims in Pakistan for medical treatment on Tuesday with doctors complained of a lack of medical supplies to treat high number of patients.
Seasonal floods have receded in some areas, but aid agencies fear the disease, food shortages and malnutrition have created a new crisis because people return to their towns and villages destroyed, and try to rebuild their homes and their lives.
"Whatever the stock of medicines that we have is on the verge of completion, and the number of patients will increase in the coming days," Ashiq Hussain Malik, Director of the hospital's medical district of Muzaffargarh in the main province of Punjab.
"Nearly 60 percent of patients suffer from inflammation of the stomach and intestines, diarrhea, skin infections, eye, patients who come here are in very bad condition."
The United Nations warned of water-borne diseases is imminent, including typhoid fever, hepatitis, shigellosis Ohae, and sexually transmitted diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
The floods that caused five of the country under water, an area the size of Italy. Linked to each other some angry Pakistanis have grown increasingly with the slow government response, and are turning to Islamic charities, and armed groups.
Floods have killed more than 1600 people and injuring at least 6 million homeless.
Muzaffargarh hospital is treating victims of the floods of 1000 this number is expected to rise. Put people on the ground or were using their own rope beds due to lack of space.
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