Jorhat, Aug. 23: A Jorhat-based NGO has drafted in doctors working with international agencies to provide treatment to the flood-affected in interior villages and nutritious food packets to children and other aid.

The North East Affected Areas Development Society (NEADS) is collaborating with AmeriCares India and Aide et Action in helping the flood-affected people.

The health camps are still on and about 3,000 people have been treated so far.

NEADS joint director Tirtha Prasad Saikia said UK-based Oxfam was also partnering them in providing aid in the three Upper Assam districts of Golaghat, Jorhat and Sivasagar.

Breach of two embankments, one at Jorhat and the other at Majuli, and flooding by the Brahamputra and its tributaries, including Jhanji, Dhansiri and Gelabil, have affected more than 1,50,000 people in these three districts in the recent wave of floods in the state.

Saikia said with the help of Oxfam they had reached out to 895 families under Dhekorgora block of Jorhat, Dergaon and Khumtai of Golaghat districts and distributed kits containing mosquito nets, buckets and utensils.

Till now, NEADS had covered Malowkhat, Muktiyarchuck, Bejgaon, Na-charaibahi, Koibortagaon, Namoni Gayen Gaon, Kerimeri, Natun Subidha Chapori, Sikarighat and a few other villages in these three districts.

"Our emergency response team has been working at the ground level since July 8 assessing the flood situation and assisting affected people in risk-reduction process. Though the floodwater has receded, people are still struggling against the post-flood challenges in the recovery of land, lives and livelihood. To minimise these losses we are planning further humanitarian as well as development intervention for early recovery and restoration of livelihood in the 52 targeted villages in Jorhat and Golaghat districts," said Saikia.