Take Your Part, Help Flood Victims! How? Here is How!!!

Pakistan’s deadliest floods in decades killed more than 1,500 people and overwhelmed government efforts to provide aid, officials and relief workers said. More than 1,500 people have died in Pakistan’s northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said Noor Muhammad, a press officer for the provincial development ministry. Government and private relief agencies are managing to provide “only 5 percent of what’s required,” Mujahid Khan, provincial spokesman for the Edhi Foundation, which runs Pakistan’s largest ambulance and rescue services.

The flood’s death toll may rise to 3,000, said Edhi Foundation’s Khan. He spoke from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, previously called the North-West Frontier Province.

Officials in Pakistan’s other provinces — Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan — braced for the floodwaters moving down the Indus River and its tributaries. The Sindh government ordered residents evacuated from locales along the Indus.

The floods, which according to U.K. charity Oxfam may be Pakistan’s worst in 35 years, may cut the production of rice, sugarcane and corn by about 10 percent to 15 percent, said Nasir Cheema, president of Pakistan’s Chamber of Agriculture.

Pakistani television networks showed survivors clinging to trees or debris in muddy, raging mountain rivers.

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Following is a list of donation links, NGO’s, relief resources, organizations and individuals working to support flood victims of Pakistan. If you are willing to contribute, or know somebody who can help, please contact the following. Please note that besides sending cash through below mentioned charity organizations, you can support by providing following commodities. Please do not donate old/expired stuff. Make sure edible items are hygienic and properly packed:

CLOTHING: Clothes of various sizes, Beddings, Shoes

UTENSILS: Jerricans (large plastic cans that hold 20 liters of water or other liquids), Crockery, Buckets

TOILETRIES: Tissues, Soaps, Dettol (antibacterial cleaners), Towels

FOOD: Rice, Sugar, Flour (Atta), Onions, Potatoes, Cooking oil, Tea, Milk (tetra packs or powder), Safe Drinking water, Cooked Food

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MEDICINES/VACCINES:

Water purification tablets.

Life saving drugs.

Vaccines

Pain killers including strong ones like morphine derivatives, tremadol, pethadine, kinz, panadol, brufen, voren, synflex

Antibiotics e.g. Augmenton, Tetnus, Amoxil, Gentamycin.

IV cannulas- most common are 18,22,24- Butterfly cannulas: these are for children

IV Drip sets

IV drips: normal saline, ringerlactate,haemacelle

Local anesthetics (injections)

Cotton bandages, cotton.

Surgical instruments: e.g needle holders, forceps, tweezers, surgical tapes

Suturing materials, Skin staples, bsorbable and non absorbable: catgut sutures, vicryl, proline

Bandages: crepe

Gauze pads

Sani-plasts

Folleys catheter and urine bags

Cotton

Surgical blades

IV pain killers: diclofenac

Pyodene solutions are decontamination

Cough syrups

Sedatives: xanax, sossegon

Antibiotics: again oral and IV: most common are augmentin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, zinacef,clafron, penicillin G, ampliclox, oral or IV flagyl syrup, cefspan

Vaccines: inj TT/ inj ATS

(Doctors/Physicians reading this post, kindly suggest more,