karachi over 90000 people were treated for infectious and waterborne diseases in a day in southern pakistans floodhit areas government data showed on friday as the total death toll from the inundations surpassed 1500flooded areas have become infested with diseases including malaria dengue fever diarrhoea and skin problems according to the report from the southern sindh provincial government issued on fridayit confirmed 588 malaria cases with another 10604 suspected besides 17977 diarrhoea and 20064 skin disease reported on thursday a total of 23 million patients have been treated since july 1 in the field and mobile hospitals set up in the flooded regionrecord monsoon rains in south and southwest pakistan and glacial melt in northern parts triggered the flooding that has impacted nearly 33 million people in the 220 million south asian nation sweeping away homes crops bridges roads and livestock in damages estimated at 30 billionthe national disaster management authority reported 1508 deaths including 536 children and 308 womenhundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced are in dire need of support in term of food shelter clean drinking water toilets and medicinesmany have been sleeping in the open by the side of elevated highwaysthe torrential monsoon which submerged huge swathes of pakistan was a one in a hundredyear event likely made more intense by climate change scientists said on thursday