EMERGENCY LOGISTIC

Emergency Logistic



Emergency Logistic

Introduction

In accordance with the latest updates, 2,170 people (310 families) were registered in the camps established by the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Chilmisdass Gilgit. Because of the landslide, 22 km of the Karakoram Highway has been blocked to prevent access to the road points flow over the past four months. Humanitarian goods are transported in these areas by boats and helicopters, but now the water level has reached a critical high level, so the government plans to stop the boat services.

There is an urgent need for food, consumer goods and health services of the upper flow region, whose population is 25,000. Flooding began in July as a result of heavy monsoon rains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (former North-West Frontier), Sindh, Punhab, and Balochistan provinces. By mid-September 2010, the death toll from floods, at least 1800, but estimates show that the direct losses could rise to 40000. Secondary effects death toll is expected to be considerably larger than, however, and long-term political and social consequences of an even more profound.

Importantly, it defines the disaster, with major implications for the global community has been met with virtual indifference from the same international community that responded so thoroughly on January 13, 2010, earthquake that struck Haiti, leaving some 223,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless. No less important is the fact that India is geographically remote from Haiti, immediately sent a physical aid to Haiti in an effort to assist, but made only token responses of some $ 5 million in cash for its immediate neighbor, Pakistan, when the crisis erupted there. (Brenda Wilsons 2010 Pp. 1)

Equal importance for the international community to respond to crises is the fact that the Pakistani public as a whole does not in itself to respond to disasters in its borders with the same generosity with which they responded to the Pakistan earthquake of 8 October 2005, which was disastrous, but nothing like the long-scale floods in August-September 2010. The rationale, according to colleagues on the ground in Pakistan, has been a growing distrust of the Pakistani people in the reliability and integrity of civil institutions - including non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - who play a role in the disastrous earthquake of 2005. Partly in response to this concern on its own citizens, the government of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has created a National Disaster Management Oversight Board to ensure transparency and value for money in emergency situations.

Goals

To reduce the number of deaths, injuries and natural disasters.

To reduce the number of deaths, illnesses and impact from diseases and public health.

To increase local communities, civil society and Red Cross Red Crescent capacity to address the most urgent situations of vulnerability.

Reduce intolerance, discrimination and social exclusion and promote respect for diversity and human dignity.

(Alex Smither. 2010 Pp. 410.)

Script

A series of landslides hit the Hunza Valley in the province of Gilgit, Baltistan, January 4, 2010. According to local authorities, in two villages slid into ...