The South Asian Earthquake: an Emergency Physician’s Perspective

Our mobile medical team then spent the duration of the mission travelling to mountain villages, escorted by the Pakistan military. In many cases we required United Nations or military helicopters because landslides and aftershocks had made the mountain roads impassable. As the army engineers opened roads previously closed by landslides, our team was able to move in to render emergency aid to villagers who had received no medical attention.