Aid agencies warn that at least six million children are at risk of diarrheal diseases, malnutrition and pneumonia following the devastating floods in Pakistan.
Save the Children’s spokesman in Islamabad, Mohammed Qazilbash, said outbreaks of cholera and malaria are the biggest concern.
''In southern Punjab and Sindh, there are vast numbers of people living right along the water, some in makeshift houses with very poor hygiene and sanitation," he added.
'‘Children are drinking, washing in and going to the toilet in the same river water. If this sanitation crisis is not tackled now, in six months’ time, millions and millions of children will be suffering potentially deadly diarrhea and other diseases," Qazilbash said.