PRCS has been at the forefront of the response in the affected areas through its provincial and district branches as well as disaster management cells. PRCS teams are operational in all the affected provinces, focusing on providing much needed relief, health, watsan and shelter to the affected populations. A logistics emergency response unit (ERU) (with support of the Danish and Finnish Red Cross societies) is based in Mardan. Two relief ERUs have been mobilized (with support of the French, Danish and Benelux Red Cross Societies) to support the relief distributions, one is based in Mardan (KPK) and the other in Multan (Punjab).
A mobile basic health care (BHC) ERU from the Netherlands, Canadian, Japanese and Hong Kong Red Cross and a water and sanitation ERU (M15) from the German and Austrian Red Cross are being deployed to support the PRCS operation. In addition, the Austrian, Spanish and Swedish Red Cross are deploying additional technical staff to join PRCS water and sanitation colleagues in Sindh and Punjab, to support the deployment of one M15 and one M40 handed over to PRCS in the 2007 floods operation.
The M15 unit supported by the German and Austrian Red Cross is being deployed to Shikarpur district (Sindh province). The M40 unit has been requested by the Punjab branch secretary to be deployed in Janipur and DG Khan. The M40 can be split into three components for these deployments; tentatively, these will be in Shikarpur, Khairpur and Jacobabad in Sindh.
Further needs for other ERUs are being assessed and following the approval of the PRCS, will be communicated to Partner National Societies through the IFRC Geneva Surge Desk.
Quelle: IFRC
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