Nepal Earth Quake: Remote villages remain cut off from help

In a report, Seven days in and the specter of the Nepal earthquake only grows. The capital, Kathmandu, is in ruins. In the countryside, not too far from the quake’s epicenter, mountain villages are cut off from almost everything. Landslides block the roads and no significant aid is on the way. They are living with fear.

According to the report from the U.N. humanitarian office, more than 130,000 houses were destroyed in the fatal disaster.

Volunteers and the rescue team members, like retired American paramedic Stacey Baker are doing what they can to help. Any other assistance is hours away. All the Medical team works restlessly. the Hospital and the tent of the temporary medical are full with the injured people. Efforts are ongoing to retrieve bodies from the rubble, though hopes have faded for finding anyone still alive.

The World Health Organization says a quick assessment of Nepal’s worst hit districts has found some hospitals damaged or destroyed but most are coping well with no extra staff or beds required. However, they are in need of essential medicines, equipment and materials. They could not provide the medicine and the food for the damage roads and high ways.

In a statement, Information Minister of Nepal, Minendra Rijal said Nepal would immediately need 400,000 tents and so far has been able to provide only 29,000 to the people who need them. They still need the tents and foods. Some villagers might be able to walk to a place where the aid helicopters could land, but that would be of little help to those who are injured.

Away from the capital, aid was finally reaching some of Nepal’s remote towns and villages nestled among mountains and foothills, where the extent of the damage and loss of life has yet to be properly assessed.

In a report, A European Union official says some 1,000 Europeans in Nepal had not reached out to their embassies since the powerful earthquake there over the weekend.

In addition, Nepal is a mountain nation and access to remote areas is very difficult. Nepal is renewing its appeal to international donors to send tents and tarpaulins for temporary shelter along with grain, salt and sugar. The government also asked donors to send money to help with relief efforts if they cannot send things that are immediately necessary after last weekend’s devastating earthquake.