The President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, sent his condolences to the people and government Pakistan For the “unfortunate loss of life and material damage caused by the monsoon rains.”
And the Cuban President expressed, on his Twitter account, the solidarity of his government in the face of the unprecedented rains experienced by the Asian nation as a result climate change.
I offer my deepest condolences to the people and government # Pakistan For the unfortunate loss of life and material damage caused by monsoon rains that have reached unprecedented levels as a result of climate change. pic.twitter.com/khEKl2pVFK
– Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez (DiazCanelB) August 28, 2022
Cuban Agency latin press (PL) reports that more than a thousand people have died in Pakistan due to the floods, according to data provided by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), which has also verified 1,527 injured since June 14.
The southern province of Sindh is the worst affected, while the physical damage has so far amounted to about three billion euros with nearly 950,000 homes partially or completely destroyed, about 3,500 km of roads damaged and about 150 bridges collapsed.
The floods affected 110 municipalities in the country, 72 of which were declared disaster areas. About 5.7 million people have been affected by the rains, including 498,000 people who have been relocated to relief camps.
Cuba and Pakistan maintain cooperation in the fields of sports, culture and education by training nearly a thousand young people from the Asian nation in the Caribbean nation’s medical universities.
Last June, Pakistan sent a donation of materials to Cuba with the aim of supporting health workers and patients infected with COVID-19.
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