LAHORE, Oct 13: A Jinnah Hospital’s doctors team reported from Balakot on Thursday that there was more need of rescue workers than doctors.

The doctors team head told hospital medical superintendent Dr Zahid Pervaiz by phone that Balakot was littered with bodies, and there was no-one to bury them. Similarly, many bodies were lying under the debris, and there was a foul smell in the area.

The doctors said the government should send rescue workers to Balakot to recover and bury the dead.

Meanwhile, on the direction of King Edward Medical College principal Prof Mumtaz Hasan, senior orthopaedic surgeon Prof Syed Mohammad Awais and general surgeon Prof Arshad Cheema along with a team of doctors visited the quake-hit area in Mansehra.

They established a surgical unit in a building near the district headquarters hospital which was demolished during the earthquake. The unit includes five operation theatres.

The team is also carrying a generator, operation theatre instruments and life-saving drugs. The surgeons have constituted five surgical teams that will visit the surgical unit in rotation after four days each.