Gates Foundation provides about $7.5 million for flood affectees in Pakistan.

WASHINGTON -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced approximately $7.5 million in humanitarian assistance for the flood-affected people of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces, and repurposed its current grants to boost the country's rescue and relief operations.

In a letter addressed to Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Ambassador Masood Khan, President Global Development of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Christopher Elias, conveyed that its polio programme would also support 1200 health camps being run by Aga Khan University, Karachi, in the worst flood-affected districts.

Furthermore, the foundation would put more support towards three maternity hospitals dealing with the largest burden of displaced women to expand midwifery care, and intrapartum services, the letter said.

Elias informed the ambassador that the foundation has an active $4 million grant for the poor that are getting food subsidies and emergency cash transfers in the flood-affected areas.

On behalf of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he expressed deepest sympathies...