Hundreds of patients overwhelmed a hospital in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province as the country continues to grapple with debilitating floods caused by heavy monsoon rains. According to staff at Civil hospital in Dadu city, they have received more than 72,000 patients in recent days, mostly suffering from diarrhoea and gastric illnesses from surrounding flood-affected areas. Hundreds of thousands of homes are under water in Sindh – the worst-hit province – and people have little to no access to food and medicine
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