Global reported natural disaster by type
The annual reported number of natural disasters, categorised by type. This includes both weather and non-weather related disasters.
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Natural disasters kill on average 60,000 people per year and responsible for 0.1% of global deaths
Health Facilities
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The damage inflicted on the country public health infrastructure was considered to be mild to moderate with basic health units and medicals dispensaries mostly affected.
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From total of 9721 health facilities in pakistan,2957 were situated in flood affected districts of which 515 were either damaged or destroyed by the floods.
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3426 Khyber pakhtunkhwa and Sindh suffered most proportional damage with 10.9% and 11.7% of total facilities damaged ,respectively.
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About 8.9% of total privincial health facilities in Fata, 6.3% in Azad & jammu Kashmir, 2.1% in Balochistan and 2% in Panjab were affected by the flood as shown in figure.
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Further more it is estimated that around 35,000 female health workers had been displaced during the floods causing further disruption to the health service.
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The total cost of damage health facilities has been estimated around $50 million.
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The Mid-Atlantic region suffer the highest number of costal flood days and has also experienced the largest increases in flooding. Since 2010, Wilmington, North Carolina, has flooded most often-49 days per year - followed by Annapolis, Maryland, at 46 days per year. Annapolis, Wilmington, and two location in New Jersey have also seen some of the most dramatic overall increases in frequency: floods are now at last 10 minutes more common there than they were in the 1950s. The mid-Atlantic subsiding land and higher-than-average relative sea level rise both contribute to this increase in flooding.