RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: The Punjab and district governments have sent seven trucks to Muzaffarabad containing 200 tents, 300 blankets and Rs1 million worth of medicines. District Nazim-elect Raja Javed Ikhlas told reporters here on Tuesday.

Mr Ikhlas said the district government had set up four relief centres at Commercial Market, Saddar, Murree Road and Raja Bazaar where citizens could donate edibles and blankets. Similar centres have also been established in Murree, Taxila, Kahuta and Gujar Khan, he added.

Coordination officer Prof Nisar Siddiqui said that medical camps had also been set up in the rural health centres of Davel and Darya Gali and added that two teams of 12 doctors each had already reached Muzaffarabad to help the injured.

DCO Hamid Ali Khan said that 500 beds had been reserved in the Rawalpindi General Hospital, Holy Family Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital to cope with the increasing number of patients. He appealed to the people to donate blood at the Holy Family Hospital.

Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Local Government and Law Mohammad Basharat Raja has directed the district officials to establish a model tent village for the quake-hit people of Murree and Azad Kashmir.

Presiding over a meeting of the district officials here on Tuesday, the minister said that the Punjab government would soon send 50 truckloads of tents, blankets, medicines and food items to Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Mansehra.

Mr Basharat said the government had directed the administrations of Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal district to arrange for 300 beds in the hospitals of each district for the treatment of the injured.

He said 78 injured had died in Rawalpindi hospitals and their bodies would be sent to their respective areas.