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Monday, April 27, 2015 5:29:35 AM
Nepal earthquake: Hospitals overflowing, rural towns cut off as death toll continues to climb
Updated about an hour ago
Photo: Nepalese rescue personnel help a trapped earthquake survivor in Kathmandu.
(AFP: Prakash Mathema)
Hospitals in Nepal are struggling to treat thousands of injured earthquake survivors, as the country's national disaster management chief raised the official death toll to 3,218.
[...]
UN Emergency Coordinator for the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, Andrew McLeod, said the disaster in Nepal could end up taking even more
lives than the earthquake in Pakistan and a lot more buildings are vulnerable to collapse due to a lack of building standards in Nepal.
"A major disaster like this will send an entire generation of Nepalese backwards in economic development
and it will take every bit of a decade for this country to really recover," he told The World Today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-27/hospitals-overwhelmed-as-nepal-reels-in-wake-of-huge-earthquake/6423272
.. 'it is the silent we have to worry about' Andrew McCloud on Sydney tv news just now
.. unheard from villages are 2 days walk away .. fears the death toll could be 10000 plus ..
Updated about an hour ago
Photo: Nepalese rescue personnel help a trapped earthquake survivor in Kathmandu.
(AFP: Prakash Mathema)
Hospitals in Nepal are struggling to treat thousands of injured earthquake survivors, as the country's national disaster management chief raised the official death toll to 3,218.
[...]
UN Emergency Coordinator for the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, Andrew McLeod, said the disaster in Nepal could end up taking even more
lives than the earthquake in Pakistan and a lot more buildings are vulnerable to collapse due to a lack of building standards in Nepal.
"A major disaster like this will send an entire generation of Nepalese backwards in economic development
and it will take every bit of a decade for this country to really recover," he told The World Today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-27/hospitals-overwhelmed-as-nepal-reels-in-wake-of-huge-earthquake/6423272
.. 'it is the silent we have to worry about' Andrew McCloud on Sydney tv news just now
.. unheard from villages are 2 days walk away .. fears the death toll could be 10000 plus ..
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