Sindh's flood-hit people beset by respiratory diseases as relief efforts continue.

DADU -- Thousands of people in Sindh's flood-hit areas continued to show up in medical camps in the past 24 hours, as disease outbreaks continue to be a concern in the province, where another 11-month-old child died due to respiratory failure.

According to the provincial health department, some 71,398 people were logged by authorities to have arrived for treatment at the various medical camps set up across the province, with complaints largely linked to waters that have stagnated in the aftermath of the floods.

Of the thousands of people who were tended to, a disproportionately high number of acute respiratory infections - 13,989 - were mentioned in official Sindh health department data.

Some 12,777 people complained of diarrhoea, 13,672 of skin diseases, 8,515 of suspected malaria, with 415 confirmed, and 33 had dengue. Another 22,413 were ill with other ailments. Cumulatively, more than three million displaced people have received treatment since July 1.

Sindh, where floodwaters descending from the country's north and hill torrents from Balochistan have converged to give rise to a health crisis, has seen thousands displaced by deluges and now being inflicted by various diseases, mainly water-borne.

Dr Karim Mirani, a surgeon at the Dadu Civil Hospital, told media that nearly 5,000 people in the district were brought to the hospital in the last few days.

Separately, the National Disaster...