Uzma Shahid, Program Manager, Ipas Pakistan
December 8, 2025

This story reflects my firsthand observations during a monitoring visit to a flood-affected community. I spent a day in the community, conducting a focus group discussion with women on their reproductive health needs before and during disasters. This is how I learnt the story of Sehrish* and her heartbreaking pregnancy and miscarriage experience. I went to meet her and later discussed the matter with the camp doctor who I requested to visit Sehrish at her home before the camp closed in the community.

Unprecedented flooding during the 2025 monsoon season in Pakistan led to more than 1,000 deaths, thousands injured, and nearly seven million people impacted since June. Around three million people have been displaced by flood waters so far. In climate-induced crises like these, women and girls are disproportionately impacted. Many face unmet reproductive health needs…

Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/floods-pakistan-womens-reproductive-health/