Yushu Earthquake Relief

Hey, I’m still on the ground in Shenyang and it doesn’t look like I or the other doctor here will get to go to Yushu for the foreseeable future. However, the relief teams on the ground (including two of my Shenyang colleagues) are working very hard! I just learned about a website run by some [...]

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Update to the Yushu Earthquake Update

Thanks to all of you for your concern, thoughts, and prayers for the victims and relief workers in the earthquake aftermath – the 7.1 earthquake that hit Yushu, Qinghai province in Western China on 14 April. I, and a couple of co-workers here have still not received the all-clear to go and help in the [...]

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Earthquake relief update

The situation on the ground in Yushu, Qinghai is, well, fluid. The plan yesterday was for the second part of our team to fly out this afternoon (Wednesday). However, yesterday we were notified that the security has been tightened up and the authorities are allowing fewer and fewer people through to the site. Although we [...]

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Earthquake update

Although the news may not be making headlines because people are stranded in Paris and airlines are losing millions of dollars from an inconvenient volcano, the death toll from last week’s earthquake in Western China continues to grow. Nearly 2000 people have lost their lives with over 12,000 people injured. Neighboring Tibet, this province is [...]

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Qinghai Earthquake

By now you have heard about the earthquake that struck in China’s Western Qinghai province on Wednesday, 14 April. As of today, according to BBC news, the estimated death toll is over 1,000 people, the number missing is over 400 and over 11,000 people are injured. The affected area is very remote and the roads [...]

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