Distressed by replicas, Nepal is flooded with wounded and dead bodies – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

Nepal on Sunday continued to suffer seismic impacts in several areas of the country, great shock replica of magnitude 7.8 on Saturday that again alarmed the population and have further complicated the difficult rescue processes. By mid-afternoon, local time, a new earthquake of 6.7 on the Richter scale struck the country. It was the largest replica so far, although there have already been counted over forty sequelae above 4 points in magnitude. By mid-afternoon Sunday, counted by the 2500 dead and over 5,000 injured. Although no rescue teams had reached the most rural areas of the country.

                     

                          The great replica Sunday has spread, as did Saturday’s earthquake, the vast mountain range of the Himalayas. The new earthquake caused new landslides in the mountains of Everest, which interrupted the rescue operations of the injured climbers on Saturday. The highest mountain in the world remains the number of 18 deaths caused by the avalanche Saturday and about 60 injured.

Nepal, by itself, is unable to respond to the catastrophe. There are reports of violence in the streets of Kathmandu Valley, which are crammed with people, according to the testimony of an inhabitant the New York Times. Sunday rescue operations focused in this area, the most populous of the country and that killed more than 700 people. But a day after the main shock, there were still many areas which had not yet come humanitarian support, many of them in the vicinity of the epicenter, fifty miles from the capital. Only 17 percent of the population in Nepal live in urban centers and it is estimated that around 80 percent of fragile rural constructions of the affected districts have collapsed. “We are extremely concerned about the fate of communities in towns and villages in rural areas closer to the epicenter,” said in a statement Jagan Chapagain, the Director of the International Federation of the Red Cross.

Even operations in the Valley Kathmandu happened at a relatively slow speed, for lack of technical and heavy material support. Images of people using their bare hands to reach survivors and bodies trapped in the rubble of buildings are common. The most hospitals treating the wounded on the streets. There is a risk that the earthquake replicas affect medical support buildings, but there is also a serious problem of lack of space. Public and private hospitals have no room where to deposit the bodies of the victims.

Reuters visited the university hospital building of Tribhuvan and described the scene. “The bodies are stacked in a dark room, some covered with fabric, some not. A boy who would have around seven years old lost half his face and his stomach was swollen like a soccer ball. The stench of death was overwhelming. ” On Sunday, the international agency news asia published pyres of photographs used for mass cremations of victims.

Some humanitarian assistance has reached the country, mainly coming from neighboring countries. Mainly from India, that killed at least 50 people on Saturday, which sent medical supplies to Nepal and at least three hundred members of their rescue teams. Then came he help of neighboring China, which contributed a medical emergency team of sixty people, Pakistan and also of humanitarian aid organizations. But still, many of the support and supplies promised over Saturday and Sunday not yet arrived in the country and reports arising from the humanitarian workers on the ground all point to the same: lack medical supplies. “For this new wave of patients probably will not be enough medication to reach the end of the day,” said Sunday Reuters Rashila Amatya, responsible for hospital Dhading district, east of Kathmandu.

Rain, cold and damp

Aftershocks continue to harass Nepal and can not anticipate its purpose or its magnitude. “There is no way to predict the intensity of the replicas, so people will have to be alert during the next few days,” said the head of the climate institute of India. Therefore, Nepal’s population in the districts affected by the replica was preparing Sunday for a second day in the open, outside fragile buildings and generally built without regard for safety rules.

With lack of medical care and thousands of people camped out in the open, weather conditions pose a serious problem for survivors. Temperatures are expected to drop to 14 degrees Celsius at night and are foreseen heavy showers and thunderstorms in various parts of the country. Rescue helicopters sent by India have had to stop rescue operations on Sunday because of the difficult weather conditions.

The United Nations began to warn of the risk of the spread of diseases in Nepal. In a report published on Sunday, the organization says that diarrhea has become a widespread problem in the Kathmandu Valley.