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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : April 29, 2015 11:07 AM IST
The Indian government is leaving no stone unturned to help its earthquake- ravaged neighbour. Previously, the government had sent doctors and nurses along with 1000 NDRF personnel in a rescue mission to Nepal.Defence forces along with authorities from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) have been working day in-day out to carry out the rescue -Operation Maitri. (Read: Major earthquake hits Nepal & India; widespread damage expected)
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh has arranged to send free insulin to diabetic patients in earthquake-hit Nepal. 'MoS Dr. Jitendra Singh, a doctor by profession, has arranged to send free insulin to diabetes patients among the earthquake victims in Nepal,' the PMO tweeted. At least 4,352 bodies have been recovered so far from the debris in Nepal. (Read: WHO gives emergency health kits, funds to quake-hit Nepal)
There is an acute shortage of food, water, electricity and medicines in Nepal. Locals in Kathmandu and other adjoining areas are spending their nights out in the open over fears of another earthquake. Hundreds of people are still trapped under tonnes of rubble in Kathmandu and some of the worst-affected remote mountainous areas in the quake-ravaged country.
India is doing everything possible to maximise the relief and minimise the tribulations faced by the neighbouring nation. More than 700 disaster relief experts drawn from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed by India, which has mounted massive relief operations as part of 'Operation Maitri'. Relief material weighing 8,200 kilograms were distributed by choppers and the Indian Air Force.
India has also sent a team of senior officials from the ministries of Home, Defence, External Affairs and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to co-ordinate the rescue and relief operations. The team is monitoring the evacuation of stranded Indians in Nepal. Nearly 5,400 Indians have been brought back so far.
The calamity, one of the worst in over 80 years in Nepal, was followed by 55 aftershocks.
Source: ANI
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