Kathmandu's quake survivors struggle for food, water, tents

Updated: 2015-04-28 14:33

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Kathmandu's quake survivors struggle for food, water, tents

A boy who is taking shelter at an army pavilion waits for checkup by a Nepalese army doctor in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 27, 2015. [Photo/IC]

Medicine is also running short in the hospitals which are under high pressure to save the quake survivors.

"Though manpower is enough for the treatment of the earthquake survivors, we lack necessary beds, medicine and other equipment for the immediate treatment, including surgery of critically injured people," Gajendra Mani Shah, an orthopedic surgeon at the National Trauma Center told Xinhua in the hospital.