Slow Quake Relief Angers Pakistanis
Posted on: Sunday, 16 October 2005, 15:00 CDT
With doctors and aid agencies overtaxed, Pakistani quake victims are angered by government delays, a report says.
Hospitals in Pakistan and India are overflowing with victims from last week's earthquake as the rift between the two countries continues elsewhere.
A 15-year-old known only as Faisa was rescued from under the rubble of her home near Uri in the Pakistani side of the disputed Kashmir region, The Observer reports.
Airlifted to Sri Maharaja Hari Singh hospital in Srinagar, India, she is alive, but missing her amputated leg.
Her parents are both dead and no one knows where her 6-year-old brother Saeed is, even though he came to the hospital with her.
Doctors at the hospital say they have done record number of amputations since the quake, highlighting the difficult if not slow nature of relief efforts.
More than 40,000 people are presumed dead from the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked the Kashmir region.
In Uri, close enough to the Indian border that desperate villagers can hear Muslim calls to prayer, people searching for survivors with no government help are asking why.
Source: United Press International
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