NEW DELHI: In one of the faster and wider to an international emergency responses, India flew in rescue teams, medical supplies and material assistance to Nepal, where the death toll in the earthquake weekend and crossed 3000.
India was the first to send aid, with supplies starting within hours of Saturday’s quake murderer. Operating in the epicenter of the quake, helicopters of the Air Force of India have rescued many hundreds of sorties the most affected district ..
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KATHMANDU, Nepal-Fear of aftershocks sent thousands here in the streets and parks of the night, where they huddled under plastic sheeting after a day in which soldiers and police dug, often by hand, in the rubble of the collapsed buildings in a race to rescue survivors.
More than 3,200 people died after more devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake magnitude earthquake Saturday Himalayan country in nearly 80 years-that rippled across a wide swath of Nepal, damaging the historic heart of Kathmandu, flatten remote villages and trigger an avalanche on Mount Everest.
“It’s a very desperate situation,” a spokesman for the national police Nepal, Kamal Singh Bam said on Sunday. “The death toll is very high and will rise further. Rescue operations are slow because we have all the right facilities.”
The scale of the disaster posed an important challenge the government of Nepal, one of the poorest and least developed world’s countries. Large parts of Nepal cope with chronic shortages of electricity, and cuts are common even in the capital.
“It will take many months just to get back to normal,” said Krishna Prasad Dhakal, deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi.
Saturday became the deadliest day recorded on Mount Everest after a rush of ice and snow swept through the base camp where climbers preparing to ascend, killing 17 people, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association. Including Dan Fredinburg, an American engineer was Google Inc. Three employees of Google on Everest were safe, the company said.
On Sunday, a strong earthquake large enough to shake buildings 700 miles away in the Indian capital of New Delhi sown panic and caused more destruction and injuries, police and witnesses said.
In Kathmandu and the surrounding valley, home to more than 2.5 million people, residents flooded streets and parks for fear of being crushed inside if another quake hit overnight.
Hospitals in the area were stretched thin and desperate for supplies.
The University Hospital of the Tribhuvan University near Kathmandu diplomatic enclave was crowded. Patients were submitted in straw mats and cushions of the couch, squeezed between people in regular hospital beds. An elderly patient was huddled on the bare floor. Two other patients share a bed, head to toe sleeping.
“We are running intravenous fluids and do not have enough beds,” said Ramesh Maharjan, a doctor of emergency medicine at the hospital. “We have sufficient operating rooms” to handle necessary for patients with severe spinal injuries and head surgeries.
Dozens of patients were sleeping in makeshift tents pitched in front of Om Hospital and Research Centre. “I wanted to come here because we feared the quake would be repeated,” said Mohammad Hyat, who suffered a hip fracture.
Others camped in the hospital porch or lying on the floor of the entrance hall. A family was wrapped in a blanket of pink and purple decorated with the words “Best Wishes”. A woman suffered two broken legs after his stone house collapsed on top of her.
