gsgs
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/asia/30quake.html?ref=world
6.5 earthquake SW Baluchistan, 150 deaths so far
6.5 earthquake SW Baluchistan, 150 deaths so far
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Earthquake Pakistan
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AlaskaDenise
In Memoriam
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
1st quakes was a 5.2, then the 2nd 36 minutes later was the 6.5 - note these were shallow - 12-15 km deep.
It's only 35 miles from Quetta - population 733,000.
1st quakes was a 5.2, then the 2nd 36 minutes later was the 6.5 - note these were shallow - 12-15 km deep.
It's only 35 miles from Quetta - population 733,000.
Treyfish
Moderator
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="98%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading_txtCopy width="96%" height=20>Hundreds die in Balochistan earthquake</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt width="4%"> </TD><TD class=small_txt width="96%" height=40>Updated at: 2245 PST, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt> </TD><TD class=small_txt>
QUETTA: The death toll in Wednesday?s strong earthquake in Balochistan has mounted to over 200 while a large number of people are still trapped under the debris of collapsed houses and other structures.
Ziarat was the most affected district where maximum deaths occurred due to the deadly quake.
The rescue and relief operation is being carried out with full strength while succor is being airlifted and transported through road from Karachi and Islamabad to the quake-stricken areas.
Twelve helicopters and one C-130 of Pak Army are taking part in the relief operation.
Pak Army has also set up a tent village consisting of 2000 tents where eatables are being provided to the affectees.
The 6.5 magnitude tremor struck villages and small towns 45 miles north of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, around, 4:33 a.m.
Strong aftershocks were also felt at about 5 PM in Quetta, Sibi, Noshki and adjoining areas.
The Sindh Health Minister has declared a red alert in Karachi?s hospitals in case the injured patients are shifted to the city. :tiphat:http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=58804</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="98%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading_txtCopy width="96%" height=20>Hundreds die in Balochistan earthquake</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt width="4%"> </TD><TD class=small_txt width="96%" height=40>Updated at: 2245 PST, Wednesday, October 29, 2008 </TD></TR><TR><TD class=small_txt> </TD><TD class=small_txt>
Ziarat was the most affected district where maximum deaths occurred due to the deadly quake.
The rescue and relief operation is being carried out with full strength while succor is being airlifted and transported through road from Karachi and Islamabad to the quake-stricken areas.
Twelve helicopters and one C-130 of Pak Army are taking part in the relief operation.
Pak Army has also set up a tent village consisting of 2000 tents where eatables are being provided to the affectees.
The 6.5 magnitude tremor struck villages and small towns 45 miles north of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, around, 4:33 a.m.
Strong aftershocks were also felt at about 5 PM in Quetta, Sibi, Noshki and adjoining areas.
The Sindh Health Minister has declared a red alert in Karachi?s hospitals in case the injured patients are shifted to the city. :tiphat:http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=58804</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Treyfish
Moderator
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
At least 170 killed in Pakistan quake
Hundreds injured, thousands homeless
Ap, Quetta
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With some roads blocked by landslides, officials said army helicopters were ferrying hundreds of troops and medical teams to villages in the quake zone and had set up a field hospital in Quetta, the Baluchistan provincial capital, 50 miles from the epicenter.
Officials said they were distributing thousands of tents, blankets and food packages and sending in earth-moving equipment to dig mass graves for those killed in the magnitude 6.4 quake. Many of those who survived were left with little more than the clothes they had slept in, and with winter approaching, temperatures were expected to drop to around freezing in coming nights in the region bordering Afghanistan.
A magnitude 6.2 quake struck again, in the evening yesterday, but appeared to cause little damage.
The worst-hit area from the first quake appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses were destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said.
"Not a single house is intact," Kakar told Express News television.
Maulana Abdul Samad, the minister for forests in Baluchistan, said at least 150 people were confirmed to have died. Kakar said hundreds of people have been injured and some 15,000 were homeless.
"I would like to appeal to the whole world for help. We need food, we need medicine. People need warm clothes, blankets because it is cold here," Kakar said.
In the village of Sohi, a reporter for AP Television News saw the bodies of 17 people killed in one collapsed house and 12 from another. Distraught residents were digging a mass grave.
"We can't dig separate graves for each of them, as the number of deaths is high and still people are searching in the rubble" of many other homes, said Shamsullah Khan, a village elder.
Other survivors sat stunned in the open.
Hospitals in the nearby town of Kawas and Quetta were flooded with the dead and injured.
One patient in Quetta Civil Hospital, Raz Mohammed, said he was awoken by the sound of his children crying before he felt a jolt.
"I rushed toward them but the roof of my own room collapsed and the main iron support hit me," he said. "That thing broke my back and I am in severe pain but thank God my children and relatives are safe."
The quake struck two hours before dawn and had a magnitude of 6.4, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was a shallow 10 miles below the surface and was centered about 400 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistan is prone to violent seismic upheavals. Wednesday's quake was the deadliest since a magnitude-7.6 quake devastated Kashmir and northern Pakistan in October 2005, killing about 80,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
Officials said the area hit on Wednesday was much less densely populated.
Baluchistan is home to a long-running separatist movement, but is not considered a major battleground in the fight against Taliban insurgents that plague other border regions.:tiphat:http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=60997
At least 170 killed in Pakistan quake
Hundreds injured, thousands homeless
Ap, Quetta
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Survivors of the earthquake try to salvage their belongings from the debris of collapsed houses in Ziarat town yesterday. Photo: AFP
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>A strong earthquake struck before dawn yesterday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people, and turning thousands of homes of mud and timber homes into rubble.With some roads blocked by landslides, officials said army helicopters were ferrying hundreds of troops and medical teams to villages in the quake zone and had set up a field hospital in Quetta, the Baluchistan provincial capital, 50 miles from the epicenter.
Officials said they were distributing thousands of tents, blankets and food packages and sending in earth-moving equipment to dig mass graves for those killed in the magnitude 6.4 quake. Many of those who survived were left with little more than the clothes they had slept in, and with winter approaching, temperatures were expected to drop to around freezing in coming nights in the region bordering Afghanistan.
A magnitude 6.2 quake struck again, in the evening yesterday, but appeared to cause little damage.
The worst-hit area from the first quake appeared to be Ziarat, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses were destroyed in five villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said. Some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake, he said.
"Not a single house is intact," Kakar told Express News television.
Maulana Abdul Samad, the minister for forests in Baluchistan, said at least 150 people were confirmed to have died. Kakar said hundreds of people have been injured and some 15,000 were homeless.
"I would like to appeal to the whole world for help. We need food, we need medicine. People need warm clothes, blankets because it is cold here," Kakar said.
In the village of Sohi, a reporter for AP Television News saw the bodies of 17 people killed in one collapsed house and 12 from another. Distraught residents were digging a mass grave.
"We can't dig separate graves for each of them, as the number of deaths is high and still people are searching in the rubble" of many other homes, said Shamsullah Khan, a village elder.
Other survivors sat stunned in the open.
Hospitals in the nearby town of Kawas and Quetta were flooded with the dead and injured.
One patient in Quetta Civil Hospital, Raz Mohammed, said he was awoken by the sound of his children crying before he felt a jolt.
"I rushed toward them but the roof of my own room collapsed and the main iron support hit me," he said. "That thing broke my back and I am in severe pain but thank God my children and relatives are safe."
The quake struck two hours before dawn and had a magnitude of 6.4, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It was a shallow 10 miles below the surface and was centered about 400 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistan is prone to violent seismic upheavals. Wednesday's quake was the deadliest since a magnitude-7.6 quake devastated Kashmir and northern Pakistan in October 2005, killing about 80,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.
Officials said the area hit on Wednesday was much less densely populated.
Baluchistan is home to a long-running separatist movement, but is not considered a major battleground in the fight against Taliban insurgents that plague other border regions.:tiphat:http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=60997
Treyfish
Moderator
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
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QUETTA: More than 150 people have been killed and dozens injured in an earthquake striking parts of Balochistan while it is feared that the death toll could rise as scores of people are still trapped under the rubbles.
According to officials 130 dead bodies have been recovered so far.
The US Geological Survey on its website said a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck 60 km northeast of Quetta, the provincial capital at 5.10 a.m. While According to geological survey of Pakistan, the epicenter of the quake was in Chiltan Mountains.
Pishin, Ziarat, Qila Abdullah, Chaman, Loralai, Sibbi, Mastung are hit badly areas. Several houses and buildings have been collapsed.
Ziarat is the worst hit area where 10 people were killed after land sliding whereas four people were killed in Khanozai. Ten bodies had recovered from the rubbles and shifted to hospital in Ziarat.
Dozens of injured are under treatment as government has imposed emergency in all the hospitals of the province.
While an official of Red Cross has confirmed the death of 80 people and said that their teams have been dispatched to the affected areas to help in rescue work.
A government official Sohail Al Rehman also confirmed of 80 deaths and said that more than 500 homes have been destroyed.
According to ISPR, contingents of FC have been dispatched in affected areas for rescue operations along with medical team. Two army helicopters have also been sent in Wachun and Kowas villages of Ziarat for rescue operations.
FC troops also moved from Pishin for rescue operations in Ziarat.
DIG Frontier Corps Balochistan has been also been flown to Ziarat to access exact damage for rescue operations.
Deputy director of geological survey of Pakistan Asif Rana said that more aftershocks are expected in these areas within next 48 hours.
Dilawar Khan, a local mayor in the worst affected Ziarat district, said he had information of 50 deaths and more than 100 people being injured. Most of the dead are women and children.
The earthquake triggered mudslides in several parts of Balochistan.
Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt. Gen. (r) Farooq Ahmed Khan has informed President Of Pakistan and Prime Minister, who is in Turkey about the latest situation in Balochistan.
President and Prime Minister has directed to use all the resources to help the affected people. NDMA is coordinating with Balochistan government, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), GHQ, Army Corps in Quetta and all others concerned to make a concerted response for the help of affected people.
Relief goods and tents are being dispatched as per requirements. Chairman and Senior Memebr NDMA have talked to Chief secretary Balochistan and local authorities to extend all necessary help and relief items, he said.
Meanwhile CM Balochistan Muhammad Aslam Khan Raeesani has cancelled his visit to Khuzdar and ordered instant relief activities for the earthquake victims.
According to details, the CM Balochistan has called an emergency session to review the loss and relief activities and he would be reported after each hour. While before leaving for Ziarat, he ordered Rs. 7.5 million, 1000 tents, 1000 blankets, bags of flour and pulses, sugar and other edibles to be provided in effective areas instantly. A massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale shook Kashmir and Pakistan?s mountain region Oct 8, 2005, killing at least 73,000 people.:tiphat:http://onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=135360
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QUETTA: More than 150 people have been killed and dozens injured in an earthquake striking parts of Balochistan while it is feared that the death toll could rise as scores of people are still trapped under the rubbles.
According to officials 130 dead bodies have been recovered so far.
The US Geological Survey on its website said a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck 60 km northeast of Quetta, the provincial capital at 5.10 a.m. While According to geological survey of Pakistan, the epicenter of the quake was in Chiltan Mountains.
Pishin, Ziarat, Qila Abdullah, Chaman, Loralai, Sibbi, Mastung are hit badly areas. Several houses and buildings have been collapsed.
Ziarat is the worst hit area where 10 people were killed after land sliding whereas four people were killed in Khanozai. Ten bodies had recovered from the rubbles and shifted to hospital in Ziarat.
Dozens of injured are under treatment as government has imposed emergency in all the hospitals of the province.
While an official of Red Cross has confirmed the death of 80 people and said that their teams have been dispatched to the affected areas to help in rescue work.
A government official Sohail Al Rehman also confirmed of 80 deaths and said that more than 500 homes have been destroyed.
According to ISPR, contingents of FC have been dispatched in affected areas for rescue operations along with medical team. Two army helicopters have also been sent in Wachun and Kowas villages of Ziarat for rescue operations.
FC troops also moved from Pishin for rescue operations in Ziarat.
DIG Frontier Corps Balochistan has been also been flown to Ziarat to access exact damage for rescue operations.
Deputy director of geological survey of Pakistan Asif Rana said that more aftershocks are expected in these areas within next 48 hours.
Dilawar Khan, a local mayor in the worst affected Ziarat district, said he had information of 50 deaths and more than 100 people being injured. Most of the dead are women and children.
The earthquake triggered mudslides in several parts of Balochistan.
Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt. Gen. (r) Farooq Ahmed Khan has informed President Of Pakistan and Prime Minister, who is in Turkey about the latest situation in Balochistan.
President and Prime Minister has directed to use all the resources to help the affected people. NDMA is coordinating with Balochistan government, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), GHQ, Army Corps in Quetta and all others concerned to make a concerted response for the help of affected people.
Relief goods and tents are being dispatched as per requirements. Chairman and Senior Memebr NDMA have talked to Chief secretary Balochistan and local authorities to extend all necessary help and relief items, he said.
Meanwhile CM Balochistan Muhammad Aslam Khan Raeesani has cancelled his visit to Khuzdar and ordered instant relief activities for the earthquake victims.
According to details, the CM Balochistan has called an emergency session to review the loss and relief activities and he would be reported after each hour. While before leaving for Ziarat, he ordered Rs. 7.5 million, 1000 tents, 1000 blankets, bags of flour and pulses, sugar and other edibles to be provided in effective areas instantly. A massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale shook Kashmir and Pakistan?s mountain region Oct 8, 2005, killing at least 73,000 people.:tiphat:http://onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=135360
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Giuseppe
Emeritus
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
WHO. 20 000 displaced by Pakistan earthquake, WHO warns of health risks
WHO. 20 000 displaced by Pakistan earthquake, WHO warns of health risks
20 000 displaced by Pakistan earthquake, WHO warns of health risks
29 October, 2009 ? ISLAMABAD/GENEVA --
Accessibility to health services, exposure to cold weather and access to safe food and water are major health concerns facing the at least 20 000 people displaced by today's magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province.
At least 160 people are feared to have died in the earthquake and the number is expected to rise with many people missing and feared buried under the rubble of hundreds of homes that have been damaged or destroyed.
Rescue efforts are underway to search for survivors.
The World Health Organization is sending two truckloads of essential medicines and supplies for 50 000 people for three months to the most-affected districts of Ziarat and Pishin.
WHO is also flying trauma supplies stored at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai to treat 400 people into the region.
The two affected areas remain accessible for convoys carrying relief supplies and the rural health centre in the town of Kawas in Ziarat is functioning as the referral hospital.
WHO stands ready to support Pakistani authorities in relief efforts.
The country's National Disaster Management Authority has sent 1000 tents and 1500 blankets, as well as other supplies.
Provincial health authorities have dispatched ambulances, medicines and medical teams to the affected area.
WHO is coordinating closely with health partners to provide optimal response.
Immediate health concerns are access to health services, lack of shelter to cold weather, access to safe food and water, and the low immunization coverage, especially for measles ant tetanus, in the region.
WHO and UN partners are undertaking field assessments in the affected area to obtain a clearer picture of the health needs.
WHO polio officers have provided valuable feedback from the districts, where telephone lines have been cut and communications are available only by satellite phone.
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<cite cite="http://www.who.int/hac/crises/cod/releases/pak_news_release_29oct2008/en/index.html">WHO | 20 000 displaced by Pakistan earthquake, WHO warns of health risks</cite>29 October, 2009 ? ISLAMABAD/GENEVA --
Accessibility to health services, exposure to cold weather and access to safe food and water are major health concerns facing the at least 20 000 people displaced by today's magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province.
At least 160 people are feared to have died in the earthquake and the number is expected to rise with many people missing and feared buried under the rubble of hundreds of homes that have been damaged or destroyed.
Rescue efforts are underway to search for survivors.
The World Health Organization is sending two truckloads of essential medicines and supplies for 50 000 people for three months to the most-affected districts of Ziarat and Pishin.
WHO is also flying trauma supplies stored at the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot in Dubai to treat 400 people into the region.
The two affected areas remain accessible for convoys carrying relief supplies and the rural health centre in the town of Kawas in Ziarat is functioning as the referral hospital.
WHO stands ready to support Pakistani authorities in relief efforts.
The country's National Disaster Management Authority has sent 1000 tents and 1500 blankets, as well as other supplies.
Provincial health authorities have dispatched ambulances, medicines and medical teams to the affected area.
WHO is coordinating closely with health partners to provide optimal response.
Immediate health concerns are access to health services, lack of shelter to cold weather, access to safe food and water, and the low immunization coverage, especially for measles ant tetanus, in the region.
WHO and UN partners are undertaking field assessments in the affected area to obtain a clearer picture of the health needs.
WHO polio officers have provided valuable feedback from the districts, where telephone lines have been cut and communications are available only by satellite phone.
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AlaskaDenise
In Memoriam
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
Pakistan quake rescuers' aid dash
Rescuers are still scrambling to reach thousands of survivors facing another night in the open after Wednesday's earthquake in south-western Pakistan.
Up to 50,000 people may be homeless in Balochistan province following the 6.4 magnitude tremor. The official death toll has risen slightly to 215.
As well as shelter, villagers lack basic supplies, like blankets and food. The quake comes as Pakistan's civilian government faces al-Qaeda and Taleban attacks, as well as an economic crisis.
Military helicopters are being used to reach mountainous and remote locations, where some villages have been cut off by landslides. The army has airlifted supplies and medical teams to Ziarat district, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses have been destroyed in a number of villages. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was handing out some 2,500 tents, while a medical team with one tonne of supplies was helping at overcrowded hospitals.
The BBC's Ilyas Khan in Karachi says the amount of relief being delivered is not enough as the number of people left homeless by the quake is estimated between 35,000 to 50,000. "We had so few blankets to cover ourselves during the night that we only had one between six children," farmer Shahnawaz Khan told AFP news agency in the remote south-western village of Kan Bangla. Neighbouring India and the US have also offered help, while the UN World Food Programme pledged to supply emergency rations to survivors for two months.
Little hope
Rescue workers have said there is little hope of finding survivors in the debris. The early hours quake just north of Quetta buried villagers as they slept. Many of the survivors have dug mass graves for their dead in the worst-hit areas.
Activists with hard-line Islamic organisations were first to reach some of the most remote parts with relief supplies. Among them was Jamaat-ud-Dawa, designated a terrorist group by the US government for links to Kashmiri Muslim separatists. The same group also helped survivors of a huge quake that devastated northern Pakistan in October 2005, killing up to 80,000 people. Balochistan is home to a long-running separatist movement, but has so far been spared the level of violence seen in the north-western tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, say correspondents.
In 1935, Quetta suffered almost complete destruction in an earthquake which claimed the lives of about 30,000 people.
Pakistan sits atop an area of seismic collision between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, the same force that created the Himalayan mountains.
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Pakistan quake rescuers' aid dash
Rescuers are still scrambling to reach thousands of survivors facing another night in the open after Wednesday's earthquake in south-western Pakistan.
Up to 50,000 people may be homeless in Balochistan province following the 6.4 magnitude tremor. The official death toll has risen slightly to 215.
As well as shelter, villagers lack basic supplies, like blankets and food. The quake comes as Pakistan's civilian government faces al-Qaeda and Taleban attacks, as well as an economic crisis.
Military helicopters are being used to reach mountainous and remote locations, where some villages have been cut off by landslides. The army has airlifted supplies and medical teams to Ziarat district, where hundreds of mostly mud and timber houses have been destroyed in a number of villages. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was handing out some 2,500 tents, while a medical team with one tonne of supplies was helping at overcrowded hospitals.
The BBC's Ilyas Khan in Karachi says the amount of relief being delivered is not enough as the number of people left homeless by the quake is estimated between 35,000 to 50,000. "We had so few blankets to cover ourselves during the night that we only had one between six children," farmer Shahnawaz Khan told AFP news agency in the remote south-western village of Kan Bangla. Neighbouring India and the US have also offered help, while the UN World Food Programme pledged to supply emergency rations to survivors for two months.
Little hope
Rescue workers have said there is little hope of finding survivors in the debris. The early hours quake just north of Quetta buried villagers as they slept. Many of the survivors have dug mass graves for their dead in the worst-hit areas.
Activists with hard-line Islamic organisations were first to reach some of the most remote parts with relief supplies. Among them was Jamaat-ud-Dawa, designated a terrorist group by the US government for links to Kashmiri Muslim separatists. The same group also helped survivors of a huge quake that devastated northern Pakistan in October 2005, killing up to 80,000 people. Balochistan is home to a long-running separatist movement, but has so far been spared the level of violence seen in the north-western tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, say correspondents.
In 1935, Quetta suffered almost complete destruction in an earthquake which claimed the lives of about 30,000 people.
Pakistan sits atop an area of seismic collision between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates, the same force that created the Himalayan mountains.
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Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Re: Earthquake Pakistan
Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24582783-5012747,00.html
From correspondents in Wam, Pakistan
October 31, 2008 08:08pm
HUNDREDS of children left homeless by a devastating earthquake in southwest Pakistan are suffering from potentially life-threatening dysentery and pneumonia.
The outbreak of disease comes two days after up to 300 people were killed and scores more were injured by the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in impoverished Baluchistan province.
"Due to the cold hundreds of children are being treated for pneumonia, abdominal diseases, diarrhoea and chest problems," the district health officer of the stricken hill town of Ziarat, Ayub Kakar, said.
He said there was still a shortage of vital tents, blankets and clothes for people sleeping in the open in villages near Ziarat, as temperatures plunged below zero as winter sets in.
"We fear the death toll will rise. Such diseases, if not treated in time, are life-threatening," Mr Kakar said, adding that there was a shortage of medicines and antibiotics in the region.
He said children formed the majority of the population in the area, estimating that between 25,000 and 30,000 of them were affected.
"Many women have not been taken to local dispensaries and hospitals because of the conservative society. That's why we are sending our teams to them to the affected areas to treat women and children," Mr Kakar said.
Many children were also psychologically affected by the quake, he said.
The Pakistani military said it had provided tents, blankets and food to some 25,000 affected people in the devastated villages of Wam, Tungi and Gogi, with another 15,000 set to get relief goods later today.
"Nobody will be without tents, blankets and food rations today," Major Khan Mohammed of the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
Colonel Shahzada Khan said the International Committee of the Red Cross had sent 5,000 relief kits, each consisting of one tent and 15 days' rations for a family of five.
"An aerial survey is still being conducted by helicopters in far-flung areas to locate the affected people," said Colonel Shahzada, also from the Corps.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24582783-5012747,00.html
From correspondents in Wam, Pakistan
October 31, 2008 08:08pm
HUNDREDS of children left homeless by a devastating earthquake in southwest Pakistan are suffering from potentially life-threatening dysentery and pneumonia.
The outbreak of disease comes two days after up to 300 people were killed and scores more were injured by the 6.4-magnitude earthquake in impoverished Baluchistan province.
"Due to the cold hundreds of children are being treated for pneumonia, abdominal diseases, diarrhoea and chest problems," the district health officer of the stricken hill town of Ziarat, Ayub Kakar, said.
He said there was still a shortage of vital tents, blankets and clothes for people sleeping in the open in villages near Ziarat, as temperatures plunged below zero as winter sets in.
"We fear the death toll will rise. Such diseases, if not treated in time, are life-threatening," Mr Kakar said, adding that there was a shortage of medicines and antibiotics in the region.
He said children formed the majority of the population in the area, estimating that between 25,000 and 30,000 of them were affected.
"Many women have not been taken to local dispensaries and hospitals because of the conservative society. That's why we are sending our teams to them to the affected areas to treat women and children," Mr Kakar said.
Many children were also psychologically affected by the quake, he said.
The Pakistani military said it had provided tents, blankets and food to some 25,000 affected people in the devastated villages of Wam, Tungi and Gogi, with another 15,000 set to get relief goods later today.
"Nobody will be without tents, blankets and food rations today," Major Khan Mohammed of the paramilitary Frontier Corps said.
Colonel Shahzada Khan said the International Committee of the Red Cross had sent 5,000 relief kits, each consisting of one tent and 15 days' rations for a family of five.
"An aerial survey is still being conducted by helicopters in far-flung areas to locate the affected people," said Colonel Shahzada, also from the Corps.