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| J & K Earthquake Response and Management |
In October 2005, an intensive earthquake of 7.6 magnitude on the Richter scale caused considerable damage to property, especially residential houses and heavy casualties in Baramullah and Kupwara districts in the northern Kashmir region.
VHAI, through the J&K VHA, immediately rushed to the affected areas with survival kits, relief and medical aid, along with two doctors, three health supervisors, four health workers and ten volunteers. The survival kits distributed included blankets, cooking oil, food packets, woollen clothes, torches with cells, candles and matches.
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A medical and relief camp was set up at Bandi Sarai, Kamalkote within a few days, to provide health care facilities to the survivors of the interior regions of northern Kashmir, like Jabda, Madiyan, Sultan Deki, Dulanja, Bandi Sarai, and Kamalkote. Teams comprising doctors, health workers and volunteers provided treatment to a large number of injured and ailing people. The camp was later shifted to the remote area of Dani-Sayidaan and Dara Gutlian villages to provide health care and relief services. The relief material distributed included 500 tents, nearly 2000 blankets, 2100 kangris, 6000 plywood sheets, 800 bukharies, 500 hurricane lamps, 700 torches and hundreds of, candles, matches and woollen clothing sets.
The VHAI teams also visited 109 injured persons in the Uri and Tangdar area at the Bone and Joint hospital in Srinagar and distributed blankets, woollens and food packets to them. |
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