Doctors and medical personnels in the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal moved hundreds of patients onto the streets on Sunday when aftershocks rattled hospitals and buildings already damaged by the earthquake that already killed more than 2,400 people and devastated the country’s capital.
The latest aftershocks was recorded at a strong 6.7 magnitude quake, triggered more avalanches in the Himalayas after the Saturday’s 7.9 earthquake which unleashed Everest’s worst disaster and was the strongest since 1934 when 8,500 people were killed.
Aside from the confirmed death toll in the country’s latest catastrophe, patients in wheelcheers who were under treatment were seen outside the National Trauma Centre in Kathmandu, joined hundreds of injured with fractured and bloody limbs, who lay inside tents made from hospital sheets.
According to the Nepali government and the international relief agencies and officials, most hospitals in the city were overflowing and short on medical supplies.
Asian neighbors of Nepal sent in military transport planes laden with medical supplies, food and water, but little sign of organized relief efforts was visible as aid agencies struggled to fly helicopters in cloudy weather, aftershocks also foced the intermittent closure of Kathmandu airport and roads were blocked by landslides.
The extent of the damage around the epicentre, near Gorkha in the western highlands, had still not been fully (–foul word(s) removed–)sed.