Nadia Nisar, Zeeshan Iqbal, Muhammad Sartaaj, Aamer Ikram, Najma Javad, Kashif Ali, Jahanzeb Anjum, Muazam Abbas Ranjha, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Asif Khan Bettani, Wasif Shah, Nida Tanveer, Paul Cleary, Chloe Byers, Anne Wilson, Muhammad Salman, Mamoon A Aldeyab
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the burden of communicable diseases and characterize the most reported infections during public health emergency of floods in Pakistan. METHODS: The study's design is a descriptive trend analysis. The study utilized the disease data reported to District Health Information System (DHIS2) for the 12 most frequently reported priority diseases under the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system in Pakistan. RESULTS: In total, there were 1,532,963 suspected cases during August to December 2022 in flood-affected districts (n = 75) across Pakistan; Sindh Province reported the highest number of cases (n = 692,673) from 23 districts, followed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) (n = 568,682) from 17 districts, Balochistan (n = 167,215) from 32 districts, and Punjab (n = 104,393) from 3 districts...
May 9, 2024: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness