(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) The UAE Interior Ministry's search and rescue team deployed to Nepal is providing logistic support to international relief operations and local hospitals in Nepal where a powerful earthquake has so far left more than 7000 people dead and 104062 injured.
Lt. Colonel Mohammed Abdul Jalil Al Ansari, Head of the UAE Search and Rescue Team, and Director General of Civil Defense in Abu Dhabi, said that the team is providing medical help to patients and the injured and supporting local hospitals with modern equipment. The team is also conducting training sessions for Nepalese doctors and nurses.
While in Nepal, the UAE mission will use the latest equipment as they search for survivors, and provide disaster victim identification.
The UAE mission to Nepal is part of the UAE's unwavering keenness to help friendly and fraternal countries and people in distress and rescue victims of natural disasters across the world.
In a world's first in disaster zones, the team will use drones to assess damage caused by the quake to buildings and structures.
Al Ansari noted that the United Nation's humanitarian and relief operations are using the search and team base and advanced equipment.
He added that some 76 international search and rescue teams, 16 of which are approved by the United Nations' International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG), are operating in Nepal now.
The UAE team is providing logistic support to international search and rescue teams and Emirati government-backed humanitarian agencies including the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Humanitarian Foundation, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charity and Humanitarian Establishment and others, said Al Ansari.
According to initial estimations and based on the latest earthquake intensity mapping, eight million people in 39 districts have been affected, of which over two million people live in the 11 severely affected districts, said the latest assessment from the UN Office of the Resident Coordinator.
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