France has sent its relief assistance, worth over Rs 20 million, to the flood affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan. The French ambassador to Pakistan Rgis de Belenet said the relief assistance is response to the Pakistan's appeal and plane landed in Karachi early on Saturday morning.
While first team of French water purification experts will arrive Karachi on Sunday. The French Consul General in Karachi, Pierre Seillan, was at the Karachi airport to receive the shipment on Saturday and he will also accompany the French technicians to Turbat on Sunday.
The French assistance, worth over 20 million rupees, comprises, 15 emergency medical kits (medicines for around 12 000 patients), 45,000 water purification tablets and 3 water treatment plants. France decided to focus on two areas in which the French expertise is well known, water-sanitation and medicines.
Turbat has been badly hit by the cyclone and the floods. Five French experts will arrive on Sunday and Wednesday morning in Karachi and they will be divided into two teams, which will set up the plants in Turbat and Jacobabad while another location in Balochistan is being identified by NDMA for the third plant.
After setting up these plants, their mission will be to build up local technical capacities through training, thus ensuring that the Pakistani technicians can keep operating and maintaining the plants.
The rest of the relief package, medicines and water purification tablets, has been handed over to the NDMA and Pakistani Army which will dispatch them according to their latest assessment of the needs of the affected population.
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