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Urgently required: Plaster of Paris

Kinnar Acharya in Bhuj

Doctors in Bhuj, Gandhidham and Anjar have made an urgent plea for Plaster of Paris, without which they are finding it difficult to help the scores of injured who require their help.

A makeshift hospital has been set up in Bhuj's Jubilee Ground. RSS organiser Keshav Patel, who was present there, told rediff.com, "The treatment of many injured people is incomplete because of lack of Plaster of Paris. The doctors are using wooden sticks and ropes to support the broken and injured limbs of their patients, after which we are sending them to hospitals in Rajkot and Ahmedabad.

The Bhuj civil hospital has been completely destroyed by the quake. At least 700 of the people who reached the Jubilee Ground were emergency cases; hundreds of others have come with broken legs and hands.

D V Mehta, a blood bank trustee in Rajkot, said: "So far, we have sent 700 bags of blood from Rajkot. We are also organising for more blood to be sent from Bombay."

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The RD Killer Quake of Jan 26, 2001: Technical details
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