Morocco medics face a flow of quake victims with limited resources
(VOVWORLD) - An earthquake centered in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains on Friday has killed at least 2,800 people and injured 2,500 others, said the country’s Interior Ministry.
 The earthquake kills at least 2,800 people and injures 2,500 others. (Photo: Reuters) |
The hospital in Amizmiz caring for Moroccans injured in Friday's earthquake is now a tent pitched on asphalt under a blazing sun, and it has only a dozen beds. When one bed becomes free, it is immediately filled again as the flow of victims from the disaster keeps on coming from villages at the foot of the Atlas mountains.
Soldiers have also set up a field hospital nearby, and some 35 kilometers further east the authorities are putting up a temporary clinic with prefabricated buildings. More than 300 patients have already been admitted, said military Doctor Col. Youssef Qamouss.