Pakistan

https://www.nutritioncluster.net/sites/nutritioncluster.com/files/2022-07/ns%20pak%20hno%202022%20v4.pdf

Revised Pakistan 2022 Floods Response Plan: 01 Sep 2022 - 31 May 2023 (04 Oct 2022) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

1. Funding Constraint

Scalable provision of necessary nutritional services is hampered by lack of funds.

The nutrition sector continues to get inadequate funding, and the floods have made the already severe malnutrition rates among children and women even worse. There are more than 6 million women and children who require immediate access to nutrition assistance. This includes more than 520,000 children who are suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), which is one of the top priorities for the flood response plan. However, there are approximately 1.45 million severely malnourished children who are still awaiting life-saving assistance, and close to 50,000 children require urgent medical interventions because of complications related to SAM. For an aggressive sector-wide response, closing the nutrition budget gap is consequently crucial.

2. Limited Services

Limited services for Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treatment leading increase in SAM caseload. According to the situation report, there has been a three-to-four-fold increase in SAM cases, with the highest prevalence among children under two years of age, which is alarmingly high among girls.

3. Coordination

There is lack of inter-sectoral functional coordination. 

Water Borne Diseases (floods damaged most of the water systems in affected areas, compelling more than 5.4 million people, including 2.5 million children, to solely rely on contaminated water from ponds and wells aiding to this living of approximate 4 million children next to stagnant water resulted in the outbreaks of diseases like Cholera, diarrhea, dengue and malaria outbreaks leading to malnutrition in children and food insecurity is a major cause of malnutrition.