Temporary facilities-such as the International Red Cross Referral Hospital and clinics run by the Japanese and Spanish Red Cross in parts of Kutch district and by the Indian Medical Association and several other non-governmental organisations-are filling the gaps. The entire destroyed hospital is now being completely demolished with bulldozers and cranes so that it can perhaps be rebuilt.īhuj's three other hospitals-the Jubilee Hospital, the Mental Hospital, and the Branch Hospital-were also destroyed during the earthquake, killing several patients and staff. Médecins Sans Frontiàres reported that a large number of doctors in Bhuj town also died in the earthquake. “We saw several people die right in front of our eyes but we could not save them as they were badly trapped,” Mahesh Jain, an electrician of the hospital told the BMJ. Three staff members are still under treatment in other cities. In Bhuj the 44 year old 250-bed Civil Hospital collapsed, killing some 150 patients-including several expectant mothers-and their 25 relatives, 7 nurses, and 4 employees. “In Kutch district all the health facilities, including hospitals, primary health centres and dispensaries, have totally collapsed,” Anil Mukim, the senior government administrator of Kutch, told the BMJ. These and a destroyed ambulance are the only visible signs that show that a hospital ever existed there. Operating theatre lights can be seen dangling out of the mass of rubble that remains of its 50-bed hospital. The worst affected area is the Kutch district, in which maximum destruction is visible in Bhuj, Bhachau, Anjar, and Rapar.īhachau has been completely flattened. Overall in Gujarat state, some 900 villages suffered serious damage in the earthquake of 26 January. Remains of hospitals in the earthquake ravaged areas of Gujarat in western India are being bulldozed in readiness for a huge rebuilding programme.
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