Aid to Myanmar is speeding up with the continued death of an earthquake

East Asia’s emergency aid in the two days has flowed since it hit a huge earthquake Myanmar and Thailand. Relief efforts focus on Myanmar, where the estimated number of deaths rose to 1,644 by Sunday.

It is expected that the death toll from the earthquake, which is 7.7 on Friday. The number of injured was 3408, while the estimated number of missing persons rose to 139 on Sunday.

The earthquake center near Mandalay was the second largest city in Myanmar with 1.5 million people. In the neighboring Thailand, the number of the dead of the earthquake has risen to 17.

While food, medicine and other vital supplies have arrived in Myanmar, a report issued on Saturday from the United Nations Coordination Coordination Office said that rescue efforts were hindered due to a severe shortage of medical supplies including shock groups, blood bags, anesthesia, auxiliary devices, and basic medicine for health workers at home.

“We are afraid that it will take weeks before we understand the full range of the destruction caused by this earthquake,” said Mohamed Ryles, director of the International Salvation Committee (IRC).

Myanmar’s man was alive from the debris

In the Naybyidawd movie, it was alive by rescue teams from Singapore and Myanmar on Sunday, to hit Naypyidaw, the third largest city in Myanmar, a besieged man was pulled under the ruins of a collapsing building for approximately 40 hours.

According to extinguishing officials, the man was besieged under a three -storey building that was extracted using “pieces and broken equipment” to tear through concrete. He is still in a stable condition and was transferred to a local hospital.

In Thailand, the search efforts conducted by rescue workers and K-9 units continued on Sunday in the capital, Bangkok, at the location of a less than the building that collapsed in the earthquake.

A mother of the missing construction worker was seen in a deep astonishment while she was seeing the search task on Sunday, and she cried over and repeatedly about her daughter’s name.

At least 78 people trapped under the wreckage of the collapsed building, but the conditions of the stack and unstable structure hinder the rescue efforts.

“The area where we can work is very limited due to metal debris and sharp edges. It is also difficult to try to reach inside, so we had to try to find (roads inside) from all over the edges, or where dogs could enter,” said the K-9 unit officer in the scene.

On Sunday, a convoy of 17 Chinese trucks was expected to arrive in critical shelter and medical supplies to Mandalay. China said it had sent more than 135 rescue personnel and experts, as well as supplies such as medical groups, generators, earthquakes and drones, while pledged about $ 13.8 million with the help of emergency.

On Saturday 51, Hong Kong sent the search and rescue employees, including firefighters and ambulance staff, as well as search and rescue dogs. The group brought eight tons of equipment, including life detection devices and automatic satellite tracking, according to a statement on the Hong Kong government website.

Russia’s Emergency Ministry said that it had been transferred in 120 rescue and supplies to Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, and the Russian Ministry of Health said that Moscow had sent a medical team that includes specialists in infectious diseases, resuscitation, and trauma, as well as the difference in searching and rescue with units and devices that can search in the hat to 4.5 meters.

The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that two Indian military transport planes on Saturday brought a field hospital unit and about 120 employees who traveled north to Mandalay to establish a 60-bed emergency treatment center. India previously said it had planned to send five planes and four ships with relief supplies along with medical and rescue teams.

Contribution aid agencies

The United Nations Humanitarian Office said that other groups have been mobilized and $ 5 million has been allocated from a central emergency response fund for “life -saving assistance”.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Red Societies of $ 2.2 million in emergency funds to support the work of the organization in Myanmar, Jagan Shabagan, Secretary -General and CEO of the organization, said on a social media on Sunday.

Kara Prague, director of Catholic Relief Services, who is based in Yangon in Myanmar, said relief efforts are largely composed of local volunteers trying to find their loved ones.

Despite the flow of countries that send search and rescue teams, “hospitals are really struggling to deal with the flow of injured people, there is a lack of medical supplies, and people are struggling to find food and clean water.”