Hungary to aid flood-hit Pakistan

Hungary is sending medical supplies and other aid worth 15 million forints (EUR 37,000) to flood-stricken Pakistan, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Thursday.

Global warming and climate change “are kicking down the door on us”, Péter Szijjártó said in a Facebook post. Pakistan is currently living through the greatest natural disaster of its recent history, with some 33 million people living in areas hit by the historic floods, he said.

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Reconstruction will take “years and billions of dollars”, and the international community is mobilising to send aid, he said.

Hungary is “doing what we can: we are sending medicine worth 10 million forints next week and support local Catholic communities with another 5 million forints, while Hungary’s honorary consul to Pakistan will donate food, tents and hygiene products to families in need,” he said.

Monsoon rains raging since June have flooded one-third of Pakistan’s territory, killing 1,545 and impacting over 33 million people, one third of them children.