A child's death highlights threat posed to young by Pakistan's floods

Badar Bibi, 29, a flood victim who's ailing 6-year-old son died at the relief camp she and her family were taking refuge at, sits in the camp following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan September 9, 2022. REUTERS/Salaman Rao

In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan's worst floods in decades to a city hospital, desperate to bring down the boy's fever.

First she took Abdul Qadeer to a makeshift medical centre set up by the air force, where doctors managed to bring down his temperature from 106 Fahrenheit. They also helped her get a tuk-tuk to rush him to the hospital in the nearby city of Sehwan.