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Agencies Sound Alarm at Slow Quake Aid
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L18531128.htm
Thousands of survivors were still living in the open in cold night
temperatures, "some with open or gangrened injuries and with little access
to clean water", the Federation said.
"This is a race against time," warned Antonella Notari, spokeswoman for
the International Committee of the Red Cross, because winter weather would
soon make it impossible even for helicopters to reach some of the high
mountain valleys.
Aid agencies sounded the alarm on Tuesday at the slow international
response to appeals for money to help victims of the Pakistan earthquake
in which the United Nations says more than 32,000 children may have died.
The Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which coordinates U.N. relief
work, said it had received only five percent of the $272 million for which
it appealed last week.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies --
the world's largest disaster relief network -- said it had only some 25
percent of the 73 million Swiss francs ($56.72 million) sought.
Amputations
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4352052.stm
The medical situation in some of the remote areas is being described as
tragic by one aid official, with many of the injured facing death unless they
receive immediate medical attention.
Sebastian Novak of the International Committee of the Red Cross flew by
helicopter to reach the remote village of Chaka, which had not been previously
reached.
He told the BBC that 25% of the patients have had their limbs amputated.
"I had a young lady today, she was about 20, both legs amputated at the
knee, and her right arm off, so she basically only had her left arm left.
"There are children amputated, old people amputated. Everybody is going
straight to amputation," he said.
Quake Help Yet to Reach 500,000
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/10/18/quake.asia/
With more than 3.3 million people homeless in and around
the Pakistani-controlled region of Kashmir, the threat of hypothermia is
increasing as the temperature drops below freezing.
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