Three more dead bodies were recovered on the fourth day of rescue operation from the Margalla Towers' debris, rising the death toll to 45.
However, the rescue team could not recover any persons alive on Wednesday. Almost 81 people have been saved by the rescue team so far, but the experts are still optimistic of recovering a few more for which they have postponed the removing of debris through heavy machinery for few more days.
Apart from previous days, the crowd in front of the Margalla Towers thinned down on Wednesday as relatives of remaining trapped people had lost their hopes about their survival due to passage of four days.
Meanwhile, after opening of roads and launching of helicopter services to affected areas in the north, the influx of injured people is continuously increasing to different hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Till now about one thousand survivors from Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas have been admitted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).
According to the PIMS administration, they have sufficient medicine, beds and staff to meet the expected high inflow of survivors. However, they said that the inflow might be more than anticipated for which more arrangements would have to be made.
Talking to media, federal minister for health Mohammad Nasir Khan said that it was the worst-ever human tragedy for the country.
The government, private organisations and international community were contributing generously to meet the challenge, he added.
The minister said that burial of decomposed bodies was the foremost challenge for the government to avert any chance of epidemic in the affected areas.
He said disrupted communication system was the main cause of delay in dispatching relief consignments to the affected areas.
Nasir Khan added that the government would take effective measures to rehabilitate the victims in the next phase, but underlined that tents, medicine, blanket and food in large quantity are immediately needed to help the affected people.
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