just watched on chinese news where they showed a school girl finally being rescued... they had to amputate her legs cos they couldnt risk removing the wall lying over her legs and the time is running out as well due to expected aftershocks >_<
Looks like the estimated death tolls before was totally off. The death toll is probably far higher though because many people in remote areas have not been found and the because government is very secretive.. I am surprised two huge natural disasters in such a short time span. In China and in Myanmar. Of course this is to be expected in a country with such a high population and population density.
chinese government isnt really secretive about this this time. its just that you cant reach the areas and releasing unconfirmed high numbers doesnt help anybody.
Gah. What a terrible thing. I hope this will have some sort of beneficial effect somewhere down the line. That's one of the hard things about life, especially as an atheist, is knowing that shit happens sometimes, and there's nothing you can do about it.
I really get overwhelmed when I stop and realize that every single person trapped, dead, or dying is, essentially, just like me, with their own internal story, themselves as the hero, and that there are that many worlds just coming to an end. *shudder*
Uhh...if I say that's terrible, I'd say nothing...
I've got a very important person over there. I think he's at Hong Kong for exams though right now, and I talked to him today. I'm just glad he didn't get involved in all of that...
Thanks for sharing this. I really feel like the media in the US hasn't done a good job of posting this and emphasizing the tragedy that is happening right now.
For those interested.. donation methods:
Quote:
(1) Red Cross in China or in US
Go to www.redcross.org.cn, Click the "網上捐款" and follow the instruction there. Visa Credit Card is accepted and
international transction fee is around $1.94 for $100 transaction.
OR
Simply www.redcross.org and under FIND IT FAST, click Response to CHINA's EARTHQUAKE.
Mail check to:
404 Ginger Bend Dr., Champaign, IL 61822
Please make the check payable to American Red Cross, and please CLEARLY MEMO it : for disaster relief of earthquake in China.
(4) Tsinghua Alumni Association in Greater Chicago Area (registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)
Please make your check payable to
Tsinghua Alumni Association in Greater Chicago Area.
Also indicate "China Earthquake Relief" in the memo
area of the check.
All transactions of donations will be published online
with the last name listed, also the company match will
go with the donation to earthquake and will be listed
also.
The rescuers would be in need of counselling/therapy when this is over....
_____
Doctor feels 'knife though heart' as children lose limbs
BEIJING: Using a firefighter's axe, scissors and a kitchen knife, Li Yinxian amputated the legs of a young boy in a desperate bid to free him from the rubble of his school, only to watch him slowly die.
"When I told the boy I was going to cut off his legs he just said 'Go ahead, please save me, I don't need them'," Li Yinxian, a doctor aiding rescue efforts after China's devastating earthquake, told the Beijing News.
"The words were like a knife through my heart," he said in a heart-rending report that contrasts sharply with the images of miracle rescues broadcast on state-controlled television.
Li, the deputy head of a nearby hospital in southwestern China's Beichuan county, saved the life of one schoolgirl on Thursday by amputating her legs but failed to save two of her schoolmates.
No general anaesthetic was used in the emergency procedures and a lack of medical equipment forced Li and other doctors to use any tools that came to hand for the emergency surgery.
Progress was slow because of the primitive conditions and especially the cramped spaces in which doctors were forced to operate, said Li.
"There was a boy and a girl who were trapped together, one on my left and one my right," he said. "The boy was in worse shape with his head trapped and blood everywhere so I worked on him first."
The boy died under the knife as a colleague of Li's worked on the girl. "During the surgery, the girl was quietly weeping, saying 'Uncle I am thirsty. Uncle, save me'."
She was in great pain, according to Li, but held on during the surgery, only to die once she had been pulled out safely.
Li said amputating limbs was a last resort, but the only hope of saving some of the children.
"I was against it at first but the kids couldn't last any longer. Cutting off a limb to safe a life was all we could do," he said.
Most painful for Li was a girl who was beyond his reach, trapped further inside the rubble under a collapsed doorway.
As Li worked on the children nearest to him, he could hear her plaintive voice.
"She was saying 'Uncle, uncle save me. All you need to do is push the door away and I will be able to get out on my own'," Li was quoted as saying in the Beijing News. "But she was trapped too deep and there was no way I could get to her. Slowly the voice faded away." - AFP
The rescuers would be in need of counselling/therapy when this is over....
_____
Doctor feels 'knife though heart' as children lose limbs
BEIJING: Using a firefighter's axe, scissors and a kitchen knife, Li Yinxian amputated the legs of a young boy in a desperate bid to free him from the rubble of his school, only to watch him slowly die.
"When I told the boy I was going to cut off his legs he just said 'Go ahead, please save me, I don't need them'," Li Yinxian, a doctor aiding rescue efforts after China's devastating earthquake, told the Beijing News.
"The words were like a knife through my heart," he said in a heart-rending report that contrasts sharply with the images of miracle rescues broadcast on state-controlled television.
Li, the deputy head of a nearby hospital in southwestern China's Beichuan county, saved the life of one schoolgirl on Thursday by amputating her legs but failed to save two of her schoolmates.
No general anaesthetic was used in the emergency procedures and a lack of medical equipment forced Li and other doctors to use any tools that came to hand for the emergency surgery.
Progress was slow because of the primitive conditions and especially the cramped spaces in which doctors were forced to operate, said Li.
"There was a boy and a girl who were trapped together, one on my left and one my right," he said. "The boy was in worse shape with his head trapped and blood everywhere so I worked on him first."
The boy died under the knife as a colleague of Li's worked on the girl. "During the surgery, the girl was quietly weeping, saying 'Uncle I am thirsty. Uncle, save me'."
She was in great pain, according to Li, but held on during the surgery, only to die once she had been pulled out safely.
Li said amputating limbs was a last resort, but the only hope of saving some of the children.
"I was against it at first but the kids couldn't last any longer. Cutting off a limb to safe a life was all we could do," he said.
Most painful for Li was a girl who was beyond his reach, trapped further inside the rubble under a collapsed doorway.
As Li worked on the children nearest to him, he could hear her plaintive voice.
"She was saying 'Uncle, uncle save me. All you need to do is push the door away and I will be able to get out on my own'," Li was quoted as saying in the Beijing News. "But she was trapped too deep and there was no way I could get to her. Slowly the voice faded away." - AFP
zzz, I cried silent tears at about half-way. My heart hurts terribly right now =/
the joke isn't really the best time right now. i heard the death toll is up to 78 000 now. fuck i can only imagine what those doctors are going through right now
because many people in remote areas have not been found and the because government is very secretive.. I am surprised two huge natural disasters in such a short time span. In China and in Myanmar. Of course this is to be expected in a country with such a high population and population density.
Linear Mode
