KAKHTAH repository to reach out to affected people in flood-hit areas.

LAHORE -- A disaster risk reduction (DRR) repository, working in Pakistan under the United Nations, has announced reaching out to affected people in the flood-devastated areas of the country.

The announcement coincided with the recent visit of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the worst-affected regions of Pakistan.

A spokesperson for UN KAKHTAH Repository Dr. Alex Jayawardene said in a statement, shared with reporter on Wednesday, a mobile repository had been established to reach out to the people in dire need, and its operations would start in 7 days. He announced that coordinated services had been initiated for dissemination of disasters epidemiological susceptibilities and pandemic outbreak (DESPO) alerts.

The chancellor emeritus of Asia and Oceania Post-Doctoral Academia and the UN KAKHTAH DRR Multiversity, Justice (retd) Dr. S. S. Paru L.L.D., has urged the world leaders to pay attention to what has been stated by the UN chief, and emphasised, during his visit to Pakistan. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sept 9 that Pakistan was paying the price of climate change, and the global community should extend massive and urgent financial support to the country. He said that he was not asking the industrialist countries to show generosity, but to do justice, as they were responsible for the pollution, which caused devastation in Pakistan.

The UN KAKHTAH repository statement said that its mobile facility would especially focus on the disabled...