Nepal’s Hospitals Swamped as Quake Toll Rises, Aftershocks Rattle

Overwhelmed doctors moved hundreds of patients onto the streets of Nepal’s capital on Sunday when aftershocks rattled hospitals and buildings already damaged by an earthquake that devastated Kathmandu valley.

 

More than 3,200 people are known dead so far, according to Nepal’s Interior Ministry and national police.

 

Sick and wounded people lay on a dusty road outside Kathmandu Medical College while hospital workers carried more patients out of the building on stretchers and sacks.

 

Doctors set up an operating theater inside a tent and rushed in the most critical, following a particularly big tremor that sent people running terrified into the streets.

 

The aftershock, itself a strong 6.7 magnitude quake, triggered more avalanches in the Himalayas after Saturday’s 7.9 quake — which unleashed Everest’s worst disaster and was the strongest since 1934 when 8,500 people were killed.

 

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