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International Culture and Disaster Management
Gujarat, which is one of the India's wealthiest states, was stroked with earthquake that shook the Indian province on 26th January 2001 at around eight fifty local times. It was on Friday and a Republic day, there was a celebration to mark 50 years of India's independence. Kutch district was highly affected. Massive loss and injury was realized (Bilham, 2004). Nearly a million families were left homeless, much of the areas infrastructure which includes; school, and village health dispensaries, water supply systems and breakage of communication and power. It also damaged the states commercial capital, Ahmedabab.Quite numbers of airport staff were reported to have been killed and wounded.
Death was placed at 19,727 and those injured at 166,000.Findings showed that 600,000people were left homeless, with 348000 houses destroyed and 844000 damaged. The Indian state department roughly calculated that the earthquake affected directly or indirectly, 15.9 million people out of a whole number of 37.8 million.20,000 and above cattle were reported to have been killed .Direct economic losses amounted to $1.3 billion, other number indicate losses to be as high as $5billion.There was need to act hastily to rescue the victims. There was need of federation staff to be leveraged to estimate the size and gravity of the disaster (Bilham, 2004).
EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION
Date and time of Occurrence of Earthquake: 26 January 2001 at 8:50 AM
Magnitude: 6.9 on the Richter scale with epicentre at 20 K.M. North East of Bhuj
No of districts affected: 22 out of 26 districts
Most affected areas: Kachchh, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Rajkot and Surendranagar.
Death toll: Around 20,000.
Affected villages: 7904 villages
Affected...
Their role was to provide affected people with shelter, safe water and medical assistance. They also played a major role in flowing in special units to the region to provide essential service with inclusion of a 350-bed hospital, water and sanitary units, telecommunications teams a primary health care unit and a British Red Cross logistics team.
CARE international did not relent, they responded rapidly to assist people in need. They played a role in giving out materials for temporary shelter, clothing, cooking utensils, a kerosene cooker and water purifications tablets. CARE worked with the Indian government and other international agencies and local partners to target severe hit blocks in the Kutch regions for emergency relief to offer prompt humanitarian need and rehabilitation as a long-term goal.
WHO responded and played a role in placing the experts in emergency and humanitarian action in Ahmedabad and Bhuj.It mobilized an estimate of $1.2million through its own giving's this was to meet urgent public health needs of the affected population in Kutch…
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