SA doctors in Pakistan

A flood victims sit outside their family tent while taking refuge at a makeshift relief camp in Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province.

A flood victims sit outside their family tent while taking refuge at a makeshift relief camp in Nowshera in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province.

Published Sep 10, 2010

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Four South Africans have travelled to Pakistan after the worst flooding in eighty years.

They joined 152 doctors in their Doctors without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières relief efforts, now focusing on the prevention of waterborne diseases and the fight against malnutrition in overcrowded areas.

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