The authorities are making all-out efforts to provide all basic necessities, including sanitation, food, clean drinking water and medicines, to the displaced people who have been provided shelter in these tent villages.
According to an ISPR statement, two major tent villages have been established at Kashtra and Bassian villages with 500 tents pitched to accommodate 5,600 families.
Other large tent villages with a capacity of 200 or more tents have been established in Battagram, Hassa, Maira, Mansehra and Jabba.
Smaller tent villages comprising 20 to 30 tents have been set up in the remaining areas in the vicinity of the affected villages.
Similarly, tent villages have also been established in Muzaffarabad where more than 200 families have been accommodated in 392 tents.
Two relief centres have also been set up in Chehliana and Chakoti to provide immediate relief to earthquake victims.
The military has also established 123 tent villages in affected areas of Battagram and Balakot district.
More that 7,000 tents have been transported from PAF’s Chaklala airbase and more that 40,000 blankets have been airlifted to the affected areas during Eid days.
Until now, a total of 334,235 tents have been transported to the affected areas, including 62,329 from the Chaklala base. More that 318,8857 blankets have been transported to forward areas for distribution among the needy people. Another 39,619 tons of food rations, 3,859 tons of medicines and 9,945 tons of miscellaneous items have also reached forward areas for distribution among the needy.
Relief materials are being distributed at a much faster pace as stocks have improved over the last few days.
On Sunday, 34 helicopters, including 11 from allied countries, flew for 121 hours to transport 174 tons of relief items to affected areas and evacuate 94 casualties to field hospitals in Muzaffarbad, Bagh, Rawlakot and Mansehra.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Army Engineers have opened the Muzaffarabad-Chakoti and Balakot-Kaghan roads for light traffic.
Work is progressing on the Neelum Valley road at a faster pace. A nine-kilometre stretch of the Muzaffarbad-Nauseri road has been opened so far.
The special communication organisation has restored 32 exchanges and 17,463 telephone lines in Azad Kashmir which were disrupted following the quake. Similarly, 19 exchanges and 13,902 telephone lines have also been restored in the NWFP.
Foreign medical teams have established more than a dozen field hospitals in Azad Kashmir to provide necessary medical treatment to patients in forward areas.
As many as six field hospitals have been established in Muzaffarabad, one in Gari Dupatta, two in Bagh, one in Rawlakot, one in Panjkot and one in Patikka.
The field hospitals established by foreign medical teams in affected areas of NWFP include two in Mansehra, one in Gari Habibullah, three in Balakot, one in Abbottabad, one in Besham, one in Jabori and one in Battagram.
As many as 90 doctors and 230 paramedics of the Pakistan Army have set up four forward treatment centres in the quake-hit areas of AJK and NWFP, while as many as 16 medical treatment teams are also providing necessary relief to the affected people in forward areas.
Besides medical teams of the navy, 18 surgical teams and 21 heath services are also committed in providing medical treatment to the needy people.
At present, 73 non-governmental organizations, including 55 international, are also participating in the relief operations aimed at providing medical treatment to the needy.
Besides treatment in forward areas more that 22,000 seriously injured were evacuated to hospitals in major cities. 11,324 patients were evacuated to military hospitals in Rawalpindi, Abbottabad, Peshawar, Jhelum, Murree, Kharian, Gujranwala and Lahore. 1,852 patients are still admitted in these hospitals most of them in Rawalpindi.
The remaining have been discharged to various rehabilitation centres or to their homes after necessary medical treatment. At Combined Military Hospitals 4,976 patients underwent major operations and 7,043 were treated for minor operations.