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SIALKOT, Nov 7: More than 150 earthquake affected families from devastated areas reached here on Monday as influx of the survivors continued. Though many families have shifted to their relatives’ houses, a large number of people from Muzaffarabad, Balakot, Batgram, Azad Kashmir, Mansehra, Abbottabad and the other areas have been living under the open sky in Sialkot and Narowal districts as the local governments could not take proper measures to cope with the rising migration which could create civic problems.
Many survivors told journalists that they preferred to stay here under the open sky than dying in the severe cold. They said condition in those areas were getting worse as bodies were still buried under the rubble.
Meanwhile, dozens of the seriously injured people are under treatment in Sialkot CMH and the other government hospitals in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur, Shakargarh and Narowal.
RELIEF: The Sialkot district government has so far dispatched 310 truckloads of relief goods to the quake-hit areas.
DCO Shafqat Ranjha said the common man and the business community have been donating generously.
Meanwhile, army has also dispatched 110 trucks of relief goods.
HOSPITAL: The business community has set up a 200-bed hospital at Balakot where the sick and the injured are being provided treatment free of cost.
The hospital has been run under the supervision of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI).
SCCI president Dr Nouman Idrees Butt and senior vice-president Faisal Mahmood Khan said the trade bodies have so far donated relief goods worth Rs200 million.
They said the business community was bearing the treatment expenses of the injured.
