Gates Foundation donates $7.5m for flood victims.

ISLAMABAD -- The US based Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced $ 7.5 million in humanitarian aid to flood-affected populations in Sindh and BalochAistan in Pakistan.

The foundation disclosed this in a letter writAten to Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington Masood Khan. The letter was written by the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Development FoundaAtion president , Christopher Elias, announcing that the Foundation's polio programme will also support 1,200 health camps run by Aga Khan UniAversity in the most flood-hit districts.

The letter said the foundation, in addition, would increase support for three maternity hospitals facAing the increased burden of...

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