Teams are leaving

Today a number of teams are leaving from the place I am staying to a number of directions.

-We are sending a small team of additional nurses to Bach

-A couple groups are headed to KCH. Nurses, paramedic/fire rescue and basic helpers with a van full of food and supplies

-An assortment of people have been attending to the local Pakistani military hospital which has patients from all over the northern areas flown in. The chief of the hospital welcomed us with opened arms and gave us free reign to help in any way.

I meet with a Korean contingent yesterday that has been in Kashmir for four or five days and were on their way out. They said aid and supplies where slowly starting to get there, but it was still a very large crisis situation. The weather has been a serious hindrance for much of the air support last week.

This morning I walked down to the lower army soccer field that is being used as a casualty collection point and airlift point for bringing resources to the effected areas.
Helicopters are in and out of this site all day; the assortment of people and helicopters is amazing. This morning I spotted medical soldiers from five countries at the site waiting to get on one of the helicopters that was dropping off casualties. While I was at the airlift site, a civilian car came and reported a very bad road accident a few miles away along the truck supply route, a couple of people with head injuries showed up looking for help a few minuets later. Life is fragile and infrastructure is weak here.

We are all doing what we can and more here, don’t believe that this situation is anywhere near under control. The amount of tent cities and resources needed just to survive this winter is astounding, and the process of re-building won’t even start till next summer.

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