Florida health care facilities evacuate patients after Ian

Florida health protected from danger keeping facilities evacuate patients following Ian

Thousands of people were evacuated from nursing homes with every one other accompanied by hospitals across Florida on Thursday flat while winds with every one other accompanied by aqua from Hurricane Ian began receding. Hundreds of those evacuations were taking place across the hard-hit Fort Myers region, where harm gash off potable aqua to at least nine hospitals.

Kristen Knapp of the Florida Health Care Association says 43 nursing homes evacuated concerning 3,400 residents while of Thursday morning, mostly inside southwest Florida.

As numerous while 20 facilities had reported power outages, nevertheless Knapp says generators are powering those buildings. Water was shut off at some facilities, too. And one area medical organization began assessing the filled harm from ferocious winds that tore away parts of its roof with every one other accompanied by swamped its crisis room.

In Orlando, residents of the Avante nursing place of residence were evacuated to ambulances with every one other accompanied by waiting buses into and not here of floodwater inside a neighbourhood that doesn't typically flood. Paramedics rolled not here residents one by one on stretchers with every one other accompanied by wheelchairs. At the neighboring Palm Island at Baldwin apartment complex, cars were submerged inside the parking lot.

Even while the difficulty was excessively a a large amount of aqua inside a a large amount of of the state, at least nine hospitals inside southwest Florida had the facing problem.

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"We have one large health system inside southwest Florida that is lacking aqua inside all of their facilities. And so they are fast approaching a point where they will not exist intelligent to safely lay clasp of protected from danger keeping of their patients. So that is an acute focus to obtain those patients transferred," said Mary Mayhew, the president of the Florida Hospital Association.

Mayhew said additional 1,200 patients were actuality evacuated.

Meanwhile, other hospitals could find themselves further strained, she said.

"There is considerable attempt underway to rescue individuals who too will need medical care. And to identify medical organization beds available either inside the neighbourhood or elsewhere," she said.

Hurricane Ian swamped HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital inside Port Charlotte - fair northern of Fort Myers - from both above with every one other accompanied by below, while the tempest surge flooded its foot flat crisis space while fierce winds tore small portion of its fourth ground roof from its intensive protected from danger keeping unit, according to a physician who works there.

Dr. Birgit Bodine spent the darkness at the hospital, anticipating the tempest would build things busy, "but we didn't expect that the roof would blow off on the fourth floor," she said.

Water gushed down Wednesday from above onto the ICU, forcing staff to evacuate the hospital's sickest patients — some of them on ventilators — to other floors. Staff members resorted to towels with every one other accompanied by malleable bins to try to mop up the sodden mess.

The medium-sized medical organization spans quartet floors, nevertheless patients were forced into fair set of two since of the damage.

Bodine plans to pay not here another darkness at the hospital, when incoming tempest injuries could build things worse.

"The ambulances may exist coming in a short time with every one other accompanied by we don't know where to place them inside the medical organization at this point," she said. "Because we're doubled with every one other accompanied by tripled up."

Despite the inundation, Bodine said patients have been mostly comprehension with every one other accompanied by upbeat.

"For us, while a a large amount of while each item is dreadful with every one other accompanied by we're exhausted ... while lengthy while our patients do OK with every one other accompanied by nobody ends up dying or having a bad outcome, that's what matters," Bodine said.

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Calvan reported from New York. Associated Press reporters Mike Schneider inside Orlando, Florida, with every one other accompanied by Matt Sedensky inside New York contributed to this story.

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The seaboard of South Carolina is now under a hurricane warning.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Its top sustained winds grew to almost 70 mph (110 kph) at midday Thursday, fair bashful of hurricane force, accompanied by higher gusts.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>KEY DEVELOPMENTS:\u003c/p>\u003cp>— Many \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-impact-path-d4db93bcac5af1134e31a3b7f2f694f0\">trapped inside Florida\u003c/a> while Ian heads in the direction of South Carolina\u003c/p>\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/floods-hurricanes-health-hurricane-ian-storms-feafd6741badece7e416d9f1bfb2db73\">Florida hospitals\u003c/a> evacuate hundreds of patients\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>— Search on for migrants following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-weather-florida-us-coast-guard-climate-and-environment-5e9a498586ddc227836ea998055231de\">boat sinks off Florida Keys\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>— \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-cuba-caribbean-power-outages-205dc50567955f2875aadbfb0f4941c2\">Cuba begins to turn on lights\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>— Find additional AP coverage here: \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/hurricanes\">https://apnews.com/hub/hurricanes\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:\u003c/p>\u003cp>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Storm Ian is nearing hurricane ability on one occasion additional over the Atlantic Ocean following swirling past Cape Canaveral, where NASA moved its moon rocket spine into its Kennedy Space Center hangar while a precaution.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:968153298480' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='cc53497a4e7a53523c4f63c7bd9ffa0a'>Hub peek embed (Floods) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>A NASA spokesperson said Thursday that teams were not here starting to assess some damage. The space center remained closed with every one other accompanied by off limits to almost all of its 12,000 employees.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A tempest surge of 2 feet (0.6 meters) was forecast for the surrounding area, with every one other accompanied by top sustained winds grew to almost 70 mph (110 kph) accompanied by higher gusts at midday.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Besides bumping the lunar-orbiting trial flying probable into November, the weather has delayed SpaceX's following astronaut launch to the International Space Station until at least Oct. 5, set of two days subsequent than scheduled.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Ian's top sustained winds grew to almost 70 mph (110 kph) accompanied by higher gusts at midday Thursday.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>ORLANDO, Fla. — Some people who speak they are stranded or are unable to obtain details following Hurricane Ian are turning to communal media.\u003c/p>\u003cp>One Twitter user tagged accounts for Orange County rescue crews inside centre Florida accompanied by the message: "Can you guys go nearer pick us up? We called the non crisis dash with every one other accompanied by were told to remain till someone shows up. Family of 3, dog, with every one other accompanied by expecting a infant mom accompanied by twins."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='a4396aa4d4db46d580c70a34458984b5' class='media-placeholder'>\u003c/div>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>On the Fort Myers Police Department Facebook page, people posted addresses with every one other accompanied by asked concerning flooding severity. Some people who exist not here of condition nevertheless own possessions inside the area asked if they could journey to inspect on their homes.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Does anyone know the status of Wyldewood Lakes Court area?? Trying to find not here how my Aunt is doing. We lost contact," someone posted.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The office of Gov. Fred DeSantis said search with every one other accompanied by rescue operations had been underway since 1 a.m. Thursday. The Coast Guard made dozens of rescues overnight, with every one other accompanied by there are additional than 800 Urban Search with every one other accompanied by Rescue team members working, the office said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's main nursing place of residence organization said Thursday that initial reports are that facilities have weathered Hurricane Ian "as good while tin be."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Kristen Knapp, spokesperson for the Florida Health Care Association, said 43 nursing homes moved concerning 3,400 residents while of Thursday morning, mostly inside hard-hit southwest Florida.\u003c/p>\u003cp>As numerous while 20 homes had reported power outages, nevertheless Knapp said generators are powering those buildings. Water was shut off at some facilities, too.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Natural disasters tin exist mainly harmful to older with every one other accompanied by disabled people, with every one other accompanied by past hurricanes have produced devastating episodes. \u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>NAPLES, Fla. — Mud, snapped trees with every one other accompanied by toppled utility poles littered the scenery of southwest Florida on Thursday following it took a straight hit from Hurricane Ian.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Several feet of seawater swept into and not here of the luxury Le Jarden condominium tower on the Naples bayfront, destroying some cars with every one other accompanied by inundating the lobby, at that hour dated receding overnight with every one other accompanied by leaving behind a thick, foul-smelling slurry of beach with every one other accompanied by seawater.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>No one inside the building was hurt, said resident Gregory Young, a former real possessions broker, nevertheless his Land Rover was destroyed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"That's OK, it's fair a car," he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The Fort Myers RV Resort remained underwater, numerous of the mobile homes with every one other accompanied by RVs on the possessions poorly damaged with every one other accompanied by inside some cases gone, accompanied by nothing left-hand nevertheless the solid slabs on which they on one occasion sat.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Debris from the park collected down U.S. 41, including the seat of a golf cart with every one other accompanied by the twisted bits of a window screen. Utility poles were knocked down, the wires splaying into the highway with every one other accompanied by down the front of the property.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>COLUMBIA, S.C. — A hurricane warning was issued Thursday for the entire seaboard of South Carolina while tempest Ian's center drifted off the seaboard of Florida with every one other accompanied by spine to sea.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The National Weather Service's latest forecast showed that Ian's winds were at 70 mph, fair bashful of hurricane force. The hot Atlantic waters are expected to assist it congregate ability while it curves spine in the direction of the U.S. coast.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Charleston, South Carolina, officials opened parking garages so residents could obtain their cars above the imminent flooding.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Forecasters predicted the seventh highest aqua flat Friday afternoon inside additional than 120 years of records, at 8.7 feet (2.7 meters) above the signify low tide at the downtown harbor.\u003c/p>\u003cp>South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster joined his counterparts inside Georgia with every one other accompanied by North Carolina inside declaring a condition of crisis so officials could access resources with every one other accompanied by receive confederate crisis money.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Schools planned to go to online learning to retain buses off the road.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Florida's southwestern seaboard began assessing the harm from Hurricane Ian on Thursday while coastal floodwaters faded with every one other accompanied by the status of people on cut-off fence islands remained unclear.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Charlotte County, Emergency Management Director Patrick Fuller expressed cautious optimism that worst-case scenarios strength not have been realized. No deaths or injuries had been confirmed, with every one other accompanied by no indeed missing-persons reports had yet been made, he said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>On fence islands that bore the brunt of the winds with every one other accompanied by tempest surge, flyovers showed that "the integrity of the homes is a lengthy way better than we anticipated," Fuller said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Still, rescue crews were trying to obtain access to those islands with every one other accompanied by other parts of the county "to determine the filled status of all of our residents," Fuller said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Utility services were mostly wiped not here inside the county, forcing the sheriff's office to use cellphones to lay clasp of crisis calls with every one other accompanied by limiting the capabilities of dispatchers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In nearby Collier County, the sheriff's office posted on Facebook that a a large amount of of the surge had receded nevertheless warned people to remain off the roads.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Officials around Tampa Bay, which earlier had been feared to lay clasp of a straight hit, rescinded evacuation orders with every one other accompanied by closed tempest shelters. 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(AP) — Rescue crews waded into and not here of flooded streets with every one other accompanied by used boats Thursday inside a scramble to save people trapped following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/hurricanes\">Hurricane Ian\u003c/a> destroyed a cross-section of Florida with every one other accompanied by brought torrential rains that inundated additional communities. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The demolition began to go nearer into focus a day following \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ian-live-updates-cc53497a4e7a53523c4f63c7bd9ffa0a\">Ian made landfall inside Florida\u003c/a> while one of the strongest hurricanes at some time to hit to the U.S. The tempest flooded homes on both of the state's coasts, gash off the only bridge to a fence island, destroyed a famous waterfront pier with every one other accompanied by knocked not here power to 2.67 million Florida homes with every one other accompanied by businesses. At least one male was confirmed dead.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"We've never seen tempest surge of this magnitude," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a report conference. "The amount of aqua that's been rising, with every one other accompanied by will probable carry on accompanied by to rise today flat while the tempest is passing, is fundamentally a 500-year flooding event."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Though downgraded to a tropical tempest by Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center said tempest surge with every one other accompanied by flooding rains remained a threat while Ian crept across the Florida peninsula with every one other accompanied by emerged inside the Atlantic Ocean northern of Cape Canaveral. Forecasters predicted a northward turn in the direction of South Carolina, with every one other accompanied by a hurricane warning was issued for the state's coastline. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:968153298480' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='d4db93bcac5af1134e31a3b7f2f694f0'>Hub peek embed (Floods) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Sheriffs inside southwest Florida said 911 centers were inundated by thousands of stranded callers, some accompanied by life-threatening emergencies. The U.S. Coast Guard began rescue efforts around daybreak on fence islands near where the Ian struck, DeSantis said. Fire departments fanned not here inside flooded areas while well.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the Orlando area, Orange County firefighters used boats to stretch not here people inside a flooded neighborhood. A photo the dividing posted on Twitter showed one firefighter carrying someone inside his arms into and not here of knee-deep water. At an area nursing place of residence surrounded by water, patients were carried on stretchers across floodwaters to a waiting bus.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Fort Myers, a few miles the occident of the fence island where Ian came ashore, Valerie Bartley's family spent despairing hours Wednesday holding a dining space bench opposed to their patio door, fearing the tempest raging external outside "was tearing our house apart." \u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='a4396aa4d4db46d580c70a34458984b5' class='media-placeholder'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"I was terrified," Bartley said. "What we heard was the shingles with every one other accompanied by debris from each item inside the neighbourhood hitting our house."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>She said her 4-year-old feminine child grabbed her hand with every one other accompanied by said: "I'm frightened too, nevertheless it's going to exist OK." The girl was right. The tempest ripped away patio screens with every one other accompanied by snapped a prize saplingconifer inside the yard, Bartley said, nevertheless left-hand the roof intact with every one other accompanied by her family unharmed.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Authorities confirmed at least one Florida demise — a 72-year-old male inside Deltona who fell into a canal while using a hose to drain his pool inside the heavy rain, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said. Two other tempest deaths were reported inside Cuba following Ian struck the island nation earlier.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said his office was scrambling to respond to thousands of 911 calls, nevertheless numerous roads with every one other accompanied by bridges inside Fort Myers with every one other accompanied by the surrounding area carry on accompanied by to exist impassable.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"It crushed us." Marceno told ABC's "Good Morning America." "We still cannot access numerous of the people that are inside need."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Emergency crews sawed into and not here of toppled trees to stretch not here stranded people. Many inside the hardest-hit areas were unable to call for assist amid widespread electrical with every one other accompanied by cellular outages. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Portable towers are on the way for cell service. Chances are your loved ones do not have ability to touch you," said the sheriff's office inside Collier County, which includes Naples. "We tin tell you while daylight reveals the aftermath, it's going to exist a firm day." \u003c/p>\u003cp>A chunk of the Sanibel Causeway fell into the sea, cutting off access to the fence island where 6,300 people normally live. It was unknown how numerous had heeded orders to evacuate, nevertheless Charlotte County Emergency Management Director Patrick Fuller expressed cautious optimism that worst-case scenarios strength not have been realized.\u003c/p>\u003cp>No deaths or injuries have been confirmed inside the county, with every one other accompanied by flyovers of fence islands show "the integrity of the homes is a lengthy way better than we anticipated," Fuller said.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>South of Sanibel Island, the famous beachfront pier inside Naples got destroyed, accompanied by flat the pilings underneath torn out, while towering waves crashed over the structure. "Right now, there is no indeed pier," said Penny Taylor, a Collier County commissioner.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Port Charlotte, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/floods-hurricanes-health-hurricane-ian-storms-feafd6741badece7e416d9f1bfb2db73\">a hospital's crisis space flooded\u003c/a> with every one other accompanied by fierce winds ripped away small portion of the roof, sending aqua gushing down into the intensive protected from danger keeping unit. The sickest patients — some on ventilators — were packed into the centre set of two floors while the staff prepared for tempest victims to arrive, said Dr. Birgit Bodine of HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The Florida Highway Patrol shut down the Florida Turnpike inside the Orlando area with every one other accompanied by said the main artery inside the centre of the condition will carry on accompanied by to exist closed until aqua subsides.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Ian struck Florida while a monstrous Category 4 storm, accompanied by 150 mph (241 kph) winds that tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane at some time to hit the U.S.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Even following weakening, Ian's tropical-storm strength winds still reached 415 miles (667 kilometers) from its center. The hurricane center warned tempest surge of 6 feet (1.83 meters) or additional was possible from Daytona Beach, Florida, to northern of Charleston, South Carolina. And rainfall of up to 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) threatened flooding inside the Carolinas with every one other accompanied by Virginia.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"It doesn't matter what the strength of the tempest is. We're still expecting completely a small portion of rainfall," Robbie Berg, older hurricane expert accompanied by the National Hurricane Center, said inside an meeting accompanied by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The U.S. Coast Guard initiated a search with every one other accompanied by rescue task for 23 people \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-weather-florida-us-coast-guard-climate-and-environment-5e9a498586ddc227836ea998055231de\">after a vessel carrying Cuban migrants sank\u003c/a> Wednesday inside stormy weather the orient of Key West. It found trio survivors, with every one other accompanied by quartet others swam to shore, the U.S. Border Patrol said. Air crews continued to search for maybe 20 residual migrants.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Associated Press contributors include Cody Jackson inside Tampa, Florida; Freida Frisaro inside Miami; Mike Schneider inside Orlando, Florida; Seth Borenstein with every one other accompanied by Aamer Madhani inside Washington; Bobby Caina Calvan inside New York; with every one other accompanied by Andrew Welsh-Huggins inside Columbus, Ohio.\u003c/p>","alertLinkDateTime":"2022-09-29 17:20:35","storyLayout":{},"reporters":[],"headlinePlacement":null,"relatedStoryEmbeds":[],"disableNativo":false}]},{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:31e1594db9018e5dd2d7e00e34ec1194","shortId":"urn:publicid:ap.org:31e1594db9018e5dd2d7e00e34ec1194","allowAd":true,"borderColor":null,"cardTitle":null,"cardHeadline":null,"cardType":"Wire 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Officials said while a a large amount of rainfall fell inside set of two hours while normally falls inside a month.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"The drainage system was the problem, it could not lay clasp of all the water," said firefighter Mladen Sculac.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Emergency crews had to lay clasp of not here a category of children from a playroom inside Rijeka while the aqua started coming in, Sculac said. A local educational organization with every one other accompanied by dozens of other buildings were damaged inside the flooding, he added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Police found a man's body under a automobile that was forced to place an extremity to inside one of the streets where vehicles was halted since of the storm, officials said. The exact source of demise is yet to exist determined. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"We had hundreds of calls," said Hinko Mance, another older crisis official inside Rijeka. 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However, officials speak these measures are not enough, specified the scale of destruction.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In southern Sindh province, Pakistan's worst-hit area, flooding has damaged concerning 15,000 schools, where 2.4 million children were enrolled, according to the local education department. \u003c/p>\u003cp>It has raised fears that at least 2.8 million children across the country may fail to hit a semester, officials at the Planning Commission with every one other accompanied by National Disaster Management Authority told The Associated Press. Pakistan, UNICEF with every one other accompanied by other agencies have place up scores of temporary learning centers, they said. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>On Thursday, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told journalists at the military-backed National Flood Response with every one other accompanied by Coordination Center that the deluges have caused so a a large amount of demolition that reassurance with every one other accompanied by rehabilitation labour will carry on accompanied by for set of two years.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:679488605506' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='01be44503b21092c6a819d79737f3698'>Hub peek embed (Floods) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>The floods have killed 1,666 people, with every one other accompanied by damaged 643 schools inside Baluchistan, 109 inside Punjab with every one other accompanied by 287 inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. The majority of those killed or affected by the catastrophe are women with every one other accompanied by children, according to facts released Wednesday by the National Disaster Management Authority.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A World Bank report released Wednesday said the flooding had laboriously impacted schools. The Government High School Ahmadani, inside Punjab's Dera Ghazi Khan district, had served generations of students since 1916. But it was no indeed longer functional since of flood damage, it said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"An estimated 3.5 million children have had their schooling disrupted," the World Bank report said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>It quoted Gohar Abbas, an education activist, while saying numerous schools have been transferred to crisis shelters where families have temporary accommodation.\u003c/p>\u003cp>The new management facts comes while UK-based non-profit-making organization Save the Children estimates that almost fifty per cent of of flood-affected families are sleeping external outside inside tents or makeshift shelters.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>It surveyed 1,200 households inside the quartet worst-hit provinces. Most of the families surveyed had lost their homes with every one other accompanied by were living inside squalid conditions near roadsides, using pieces of cloth or tarpaulin for protection from monsoon rains. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Save the Children's country director inside Pakistan, Khuram Gondal, said Pakistan was now inside the grip of a greatest health emergency.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"In Sindh province, I saw hundreds of thousands of people living inside filthy conditions inside makeshift camps – some accompanied by only a malleable sheet to retain protected from danger themselves from the heavy monsoon rains,\" Gondal said. 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