Disastrous response

The recent torrential rains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa once again bring home the fact that we are not prepared at any level – federal, provincial and more importantly local – to respond to disasters.
We have a broken infrastructure, stretched-to-the-limit healthcare facilities and a woefully corrupt political class. As previously happened, this time too people will themselves arrange for the burial of their dead, take the injured to hospitals and help voluntarily. Is there a need for governments then?
Waheed Haider
Kech