The magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck northern Pakistan andIndia on October 8, 2005, was the world's third-deadliest naturaldisaster of the past 25 years, surpassed only by the 2004 Asiantsunami and the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh. An estimated 74,650people lost their lives — a higher death toll than theaverage annual loss to all natural and man-made disasters combinedduring the 1990s, excluding armed conflicts. Yet the outpouringof concern, solidarity, and assistance was of short duration.Today only 66 percent of the "flash appeal" issued by the UnitedNations — an appeal for emergency aid initially . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Brennan is health director of the International Rescue Committee, New York. Dr. Waldman is a professor of clinical population and family health in the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.
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