Fragile life makes light of quake, 64 days later
MUZAFFARABAD: A woman has been recovered alive from the debris of her flattened home near Muzaffarabad, 64 days after the October 8 earthquake, medics said. Forty-year-old Naqsha Bibi was rescued from the rubble of the wrecked Kamser refugee camp by some people who were digging to retrieve the bodies of their kin on Sunday evening, said Dr Hafizur Rehman of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) hospital.
She was rushed to PIMA facility where her condition is stated to be out of danger. Doctors say she does not bear any visible wound or cut on her body. However, she is malnourished and 80 percent of muscles have withered. "She has been admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital and we are closely monitoring her condition," said Doctor Hafiz, the incharge of PIMA Field Surgical Hospital. He said: "We have started administering liquid to control the dehydration she is suffering from. She is improving and we do hope she will survive." "It is miraculous that she survived two months under the debris and without eating or drinking," said Dr Riaz, another physician of the PIMA. The villagers who dug the woman out said pieces of rotten food were found in the hole, and that she might have survived by drinking rainwater, Hafeez said. Over-200 people died in the Kamser refugee camp, 6 kms north west of Muzaffarabad, due to the October 8 tremblor.
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