UAE Armed Forces provide tents for school, construct 3 shelters
By Ali Imran

ISLAMABAD—A team of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) armed forces has expanded its three tent shelters in the earthquake-hit Bisan at the outskirts of Balakot to provide more than 400 families with shelter and food supplies.
Two tent schools were also established as part of UAE relief operations in the quake-hit areas. Relief operations and medical services were provided to the remote mountain villages in Kaghan and Naran areas.
The commander of the UAE Armed Forces team Col. Abdur Rahman Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz, told reporters Sunday that the UAE teams have provided much needed tents for temporary schools.
Another tent village with out-door clinic was established in Balakot city to provide shelter and drinking water for affected people moving from surrounding villages
He added that the field hospital’s medical services were needed all the time after all the local hospitals and healthcare centres were totally destroyed in the quake-hit area. This hospital, he said, received on Sunday injured persons from villages in Kaghan. They are now being treated after the passage of 45 days since the quake disaster.
Col Abdur Rahman mentioned that a medical team has managed to reach the remote mountain villages with loads of tents, blankets, heaters and food items using mules as the people there refused to vacate their destroyed houses and to move to plain area. “They don’t want to leave their ancestral homeland”, he said
Col. Abdur Rahman Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz said he has assured the survivors that his team was committed to meet the requirements of the survivors in those areas. He gave a brief of what the team has so far offered to the affected people in Hazara division of NWFP.
The services include medical aid, relief operations and logistic services. A total of 26,500 injured and sick people came to the hospital and 319 were operated.
A total of 5,000 tents were distributed among the local population with a portion delivered to the Pakistan Army. So far 4,000 tons of supplies carried through an air bridge of 60 planes of the Armed Forces have already reached the survivor of the affected area.