INDIA: SECRETARY-GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES APPEAL FOR EARTHQUAKE HELP

Record ID: 222864

  • Title: INDIA: SECRETARY-GENERAL OF INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES APPEAL FOR EARTHQUAKE HELP
  • Date: 5th February 2001
  • Summary: SUKHPAR, BHUJ, INDIA (FEBRUARY 4, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV VEHICLE CARRYING IFRC SECRETARY-GENERAL DIDIER CHERPITEL ARRIVES AT JAPANESE FIELD HOSPITAL 0.07 2. SCU RED CROSS LOGO; MV CHERPITEL GETS OUT OF CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. MV CHERPITEL SPEAKING TO RED CROSS OFFICIALS (2 SHOTS) 0.32 4. SCU JAPANESE DOCTOR SPEAKING (ENGLISH); MV CHERPITAL AND JAPANESE DOCTOR (2 SHOTS) 0.56 5. SCU /MV CHERPITEL INSPECTING INTERIOR OF FIELD HOSPITALL SCU EXAMINING ONE CHILD WITH SEVERE HEAD WOUND; MV CHERPITEL IN FIELD HOSPITAL/ INSPECTING PATIENTS/ PATIENTS WAITING OUTSIDE FIELD HOSPITAL; SCU BABY (10 SHOTS) 1.49 6. SCU CHERPITEL LISTENING TO REPORTERS QUESTION 1.53 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHERPITEL "The main pressing issue is clearly on health, and we can see it here with the Japanese Red Cross, how they care with people who are being treated in the first phase, but will need continuous treatment. That's a very important point." 2.06 8. SLV/MV/SCU VILLAGERS LIVING OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES IN TEMPORARY SHELTER (12 SHOTS) 3.16 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th February 2001 12:00
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  • Location: SUKHPAR, BHUJ, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVAD66XX1KE52VCALNLGZFYDHYS0
  • Story Text: The Secretary-General of the International Federation
    of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has appealed for
    more help for India's earthquake victims as the organisation
    mounts what is, potentially, the largest ever single relief
    and reconstruction operation in one country.

    Didier Cherpitel, Secretary-General for the
    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
    Societies, visited a Japanese field hospital in the village of
    Sukhpar, outside Bhuj town on Sunday (February 4).

    The Japanese medical team gave Cherpitel a briefing on the
    latest situation in the area.

    "The main pressing issue is clearly on health, and we can
    see it here with the Japanese Red Cross, how they care with
    people who are being treated in the first phase, but need
    continuous treatment. That's a very important point,"
    Cherpitel told Reuters.

    He added that, although the Red Cross has about 300,000
    tents and blankets to give to the victims, much more is
    needed.

    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
    Societies has also been flying daily from Delhi to bring
    personnel and emergency supplies to Bhuj near the epicentre of
    the earthquake, as well as to evacuate some of those injured.

    Sixteen cargo planes in a Red Cross airlift have already
    taken 600 tonnes of emergency supplies since the January 26
    earthquake that killed an estimated 30,000 people and left
    hundreds of thousands homeless.

    At least 20 different nationalities are involved in the
    Red Cross operation and 13 countries have taken part in the
    various airlift of supplies: Australia, Belgium, Britain,
    Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Spain, Sweden,
    the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

    Italy's Red Cross society has sent supplies using trucks.

    The International Red Cross had appealed for some 15. 45
    million U.S. dollars for the earthquake victims. So far, it
    has received, in cash and in kind, 60 per cent of the amount.

    Following the short-term relief is the huge task of
    reconstruction which officials say could take a long time
    given the extent of the damage on Bhuj's infrastructure.
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