Pakistan Earthquake Update and Archive
14 October 2006 - News Feature
Female Medical Teams in Pakistan Reach More Women and Save More Lives than before the Earthquake
MUZAFFARABAD — When the earthquake struck on 8 October 2005, Larmirjan’s house collapsed. She was badly injured, and her 18-year-old son was killed. Throughout northern Pakistan, 73,000 died and 3.5 million were left homeless.
While most survivors are now back in their home villages, Larmirjan and her family have nowhere to go. She and her husband came here from Indian-administered Kashmir 15 years ago. They face another hard winter with their four young daughters in a tent in a refugee camp.
But Larmirjan, who is over 40 and nine months pregnant, will at least have the chance to give birth safely, in a fully equipped hospital. She has had regular prenatal care at mobile clinic that regularly visits her camp and is staffed by a female doctor and a midwife.  more...
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6 October 2006 - Press Release
More Women Using Lifesaving Health Services One Year After Pakistan Quake
MUZAFFARABAD — Many mothers and children in areas hit by last year’s earthquake in Pakistan have better access to health care than before the disaster, as a result of joint efforts to restore services. Most survivors of the 8 October 2005 disaster, including the estimated 5,000 women who give birth each month, still face a range of threats to their health. Exposure, crowding, weak diets and bad sanitation compound pre-existing problems more...
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April 2006 - Report to Donors
Caring for Women: UNFPA Pakistan Earthquake Response at Six Months
Six months after the earthquake in Pakistan, UNFPA had made significant progress in restoring reproductive health services. Caring for Women: UNFPA Pakistan Earthquake Response at Six Months documents the Fund’s role as the lead advocate for the concerns of women and girls immediately following the disaster and for culturally sensitive approaches to dealing with them, including the use of female health workers. Major projects included the revitalization of primary and secondary maternal, child and reproductive health services, including the emergency delivery of supplies and services and the setting up of prefabricated health facilities. UNFPA also provided psychosocial services through to women in some of the hardest hit areas and distributed large quantities of hygiene and sanitation kits.
7 April 2006 - Press Release
Six Months After Pakistan Earthquake, UNFPA Continues Providing Vital Health Services to Communities
ISLAMABAD — Six months after the devastating 8 October 2005 earthquake that ripped through northern Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to provide much-needed health assistance to the earthquake victims, especially women and adolescent girls. The massive earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, killed more than 80,000 people, injured over 140,000 and left over 3.5 million people homeless. more...
17 November 2005 - Press Release
Restoration of Health Services Begins in Earthquake Affected Areas of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — As international response to the Pakistani earthquake advances from emergency relief to reconstruction efforts, there is an urgent need to restore the health system by setting up emergency health centres staffed with female providers and equipped with reproductive health supplies and maternal care equipment. To address this need, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has mobilized $5 million to help re-establish health-care services and train community health providers in basic maternal care in the earthquake-affected areas. more...
7 November 2005 - Press Release
Thousands of Pregnant Earthquake Survivors Will Face Life-Threatening Complications in Coming Months, UNFPA Warns
ISLAMABAD — Some 17,000 earthquake-affected women in Pakistan are expected to give birth in the next two months. An estimated 1,200 of them will face major complications and about 400 will require surgical assistance. more...
26 October 2005 - Statement
Statement by Kunio Waki, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director, at the Pakistan Earthquake Donor Meeting
GENEVA — The health infrastructures in most of the earthquake-affected districts in the North West Frontier Province and Kashmir have been badly damaged. Many of the health staff have died or are wounded or their families have suffered fatalities so most of the human resources are not in place. more...
21 October 2005 - News Feature
MUZAFFARABAD — Bushra, 17, went into labour a few days after the earthquake struck, but the baby didn’t come. Two days later, her family managed to get her to the only functioning maternity ward here. She delivered normally, more...
17 October 2005 - Press Release
ISLAMABAD — Six mobile medical service units have begun providing care to families in two of the districts most affected by last week’s earthquake. In Muzzafarabad, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, one of the teams delivered three babies in its first day of operations at a government-run field hospital. more...
10 October 2005 - Press Release
Pregnant Women at Risk Following Massive Earthquake in Pakistan
UNITED NATIONS — As trucks carrying life-saving medicine and surgical supplies began to arrive in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the area worst hit by Saturday’s devastating earthquake, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, issued an appeal today for $3.2 million to meet the urgent needs of women, including pregnant women and those with newborns. Many hospitals in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Northwest Frontier Province were completely destroyed or made unusable by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, more...
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