As world leaders meet at the COP27 [8] in Egypt to try to reinvigorate stalled global climate talks, survivors of Pakistan's heaviest flooding in living memory are facing a health crisis, with stagnating floodwaters fuelling a rise in malaria, dengue, and diarrhoea. The unprecedented scale [9] of the disaster—up to $40 billion in economic damage, 1,700 killed since mid-June, eight million [10] displaced, and almost half the country's farmland submerged—has given impetus to calls for COP27 to take up the question of climate reparations [11].
But there are far more pressing concerns in southern Sindh province, where access to assistance has been curtailed by the vast extent of the flooding, massive damage [14] to health facilities, and a chronic lack [15] of medical personnel. (The New Humanitarian [12])
