{"title":"Pakistan Flood: Prevalence of Mental Health Crisis, An Alarming Situation","authors":"Yousra Sarfaraz, Ammara Rafique, Nida Sohai̇l","doi":"10.38175/phnx.1189818","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan is facing weather extremities since the beginning of this year. Recent flood has sparked a major health crisis within the victims. The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression within survivors (adults and children) is relatively high and step should be taken in time to cure there deteriorating mental health.","PeriodicalId":134281,"journal":{"name":"Phoenix Medical Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Phoenix Medical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.38175/phnx.1189818","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pakistan is facing weather extremities since the beginning of this year. Recent flood has sparked a major health crisis within the victims. The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression within survivors (adults and children) is relatively high and step should be taken in time to cure there deteriorating mental health.