Urgent funds needed as winter, polio compound ? UN

The humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains precarious four months after the devastating floods and could worsen.

A fifth of Pakistan?s territory was ravaged by the monsoon floods that affected 20 million people. Some 10,000 schools and rural health centres were damaged.

UNICEF says it requires over $82 million to continue with its life-saving and recovery programmes in Pakistan.

UNICEF has been providing clean water to 2.8 million people daily, since the early stages of the floods, and sanitation facilities to more than 1.5 million people.

Nutritional supplements have reached nearly 300,000 pregnant women and mothers with young babies as well as malnourished children.