Last Updated On 27 September,2013 About 1 hour ago
No rescue efforts were visible even four days after the earthquake
AWARAN (Dunya News) - Tens of thousands of survivors of earthquake waited for help in soaring temperatures Friday, as the death toll rose past 600 and anger grew at the slow pace of government aid.
More than 100,000 people made homeless by Tuesday s 7.7-magnitude quake spent a third night in the open or under makeshift shelters as response teams struggled to reach the remote region in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
The sheer scale of the territory involved is daunting -- the population of Awaran is scattered over more than 21,000 square kilometres (8,000 square miles) of remote and rugged terrain -- and infrastructure is extremely limited, with few medical facilities or even roads.
The area is also home to Baluch separatist rebels waging a decade-long insurgency.
Meanwhile, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)‚ Saeed Aleem said rescue and relief operations have been geared up on the directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to provide immediate relief to the quake-hit people in Balochistan.
In an interview‚ he said helicopters have also been pressed into service to ensure help to the victims on time.
He said an army hospital has been set up in Awaran to provide medical assistance to the injured people.
The NDMA chairman said the relief goods including tents‚ food items‚ medicine and drinking water are being distributed among the people affected by the quake.
Meanwhile‚ briefing newsmen in Quetta a Balochistan government spokesman Jan Mohammad Bulaidi said disruption of the communications system in the scattered populated and remote areas is hampering the rescue operation launched by the federal and provincial governments in collaboration with Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps.
He appealed to the federal government to allow international humanitarian organizations to initiate rescue and relief efforts on their own.
He said more than sixty doctors are providing medical aid to the injured people in Awaran and Kech districts.
Director General Provincial Disaster Management Authority Hafiz Abdul Basit said that sixty-two trucks carrying two thousand six hundred ninety tents‚ five thousand three hundred blankets‚ two thousand nine twelve food packets and three thousand nine hundred water bottles and other essential items have been dispatched to the quake-hit districts.
AWARAN (Dunya News) - Tens of thousands of survivors of earthquake waited for help in soaring temperatures Friday, as the death toll rose past 600 and anger grew at the slow pace of government aid.
More than 100,000 people made homeless by Tuesday s 7.7-magnitude quake spent a third night in the open or under makeshift shelters as response teams struggled to reach the remote region in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.
The sheer scale of the territory involved is daunting -- the population of Awaran is scattered over more than 21,000 square kilometres (8,000 square miles) of remote and rugged terrain -- and infrastructure is extremely limited, with few medical facilities or even roads.
The area is also home to Baluch separatist rebels waging a decade-long insurgency.
Meanwhile, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)‚ Saeed Aleem said rescue and relief operations have been geared up on the directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to provide immediate relief to the quake-hit people in Balochistan.
In an interview‚ he said helicopters have also been pressed into service to ensure help to the victims on time.
He said an army hospital has been set up in Awaran to provide medical assistance to the injured people.
The NDMA chairman said the relief goods including tents‚ food items‚ medicine and drinking water are being distributed among the people affected by the quake.
Meanwhile‚ briefing newsmen in Quetta a Balochistan government spokesman Jan Mohammad Bulaidi said disruption of the communications system in the scattered populated and remote areas is hampering the rescue operation launched by the federal and provincial governments in collaboration with Pakistan Army and Frontier Corps.
He appealed to the federal government to allow international humanitarian organizations to initiate rescue and relief efforts on their own.
He said more than sixty doctors are providing medical aid to the injured people in Awaran and Kech districts.
Director General Provincial Disaster Management Authority Hafiz Abdul Basit said that sixty-two trucks carrying two thousand six hundred ninety tents‚ five thousand three hundred blankets‚ two thousand nine twelve food packets and three thousand nine hundred water bottles and other essential items have been dispatched to the quake-hit districts.
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