Flood response in Pakistan is not one operation. It is four, run in sequence, and most organisations only fund the first two.
Written down because improvising each time costs days, and in a flood response days are measured in cases of cholera.
First 24 hours
Two people go in before anything is loaded. They confirm which roads hold, where displaced families have actually gathered and what the district health office still has. Nothing is procured until that report comes back.
Day 2 to day 7
A medical team deploys with a standing drug list built for what floods produce, gastroenteritis, skin infection, snakebite, respiratory illness and untreated chronic disease. Clean water goes in alongside it, because the outbreak follows the water, not the injury.
Week 2 onward
Ration distribution is run through local volunteers who know which households have lost everything. Bulk purchase before the local market price climbs is the difference between feeding one family and three.
The months after
Camps continue after the water recedes, when the coverage has moved on and the illness has not. This is the phase most appeals never fund, and the phase that decides whether people recover.
Places, not percentages. These are the districts our teams worked in and what they did there.
Senior doctors ran four camps back to back. Every consultation, every diagnostic test, and every full course of medicine was provided completely free at the point of care.
Dera Ghazi Khan & South Punjab
Rapid response disaster teams led by senior clinicians mobilized emergency relief boats, setting up frontline triage and treating waterborne illnesses where roads had washed out.
Taunsa Sharif, Dera Ghazi Khan
Volunteer consultant surgeons conducted vital procedures and provided specialized medication for incarcerated and underprivileged patients who otherwise had zero access to surgery.
Kot Lakhpat, Lahore
Hands-on trauma management, BLS, haemorrhage control, and disaster triage workshops training volunteers to act as certified frontline lifesavers in emergencies.
Lahore & Regional Hubs
