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Shortage of Meds Hampering Rescue
The New Indian Express Nagapattinam
|March 31, 2025
Hospitals are struggling to cope with the influx of injured and people are struggling to find food, clean water
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EMERGENCY aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. Relief efforts are focused on Myanmar, where the estimated death toll rose to 1,644 by Sunday afternoon.
The number of dead from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake is expected to increase, while the number of injured was 3,408 and 139 people were missing as of Sunday. The earthquake's epicenter was near Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city with 1.5 million people. In neighboring Thailand, the death toll rose to 17.
This story is from the March 31, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Nagapattinam.
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