The earthquake that struck the Nay Pyi Taw Council area on 28 March and its aftershocks caused damage to roads, bridges and buildings. This resulted in the leaving deaths and injuries. International relief teams and local teams are currently carrying out search and rescue, health care and rehabilitation works in the relevant townships.

Starting yesterday morning, international relief teams, doctors and nurses, foreign firefighters, Tatmadaw members, staff and personnel from the Ministry of Health and the Directorate of Military Medical Services and social organizations have been divided into teams to conduct search and rescue work in the earthquake-hit townships in the Nay Pyi Taw Council area.

The international search and rescue teams visit townships in the Nay Pyi Taw Council area to educate and demonstrate emergency procedures to the public in the case of a natural disaster. Doctors and nurses use search and rescue dogs, assistance vehicles, and search and rescue equipment to search and rescue homes of earthquake-hit residents in the townships and wards, transferring the bodies to the relevant township hospitals, providing health care to the victims and helping them to strengthen their mental and physical health. In addition, local search and rescue teams, social organizations, medical personnel, and joint teams made tours to the earthquake-stricken townships and wards in the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area to search and rescue people by using search and rescue equipment, providing necessary health care to the injured and transporting them to nearby hospitals and clinics as soon as possible, They are also assisting in relocating the elderly to safe places.

Similarly, in the Nay Pyi Taw Council area, the staff housings in the townships were damaged by the earthquake. The staff families living in these houses are being quickly relocated to safe places and temporary residences with the plans of their respective Ministries by the help of military vehicles and military personnel. Arrangements are also being made to ensure that the staff can eat, and sleep, having purified drinking water and water for use in these places.

Since the earthquake also damaged the roads and bridges in the townships, officials are urgently conducting repairs using machinery to ensure that people can travel smoothly on the roads.

The townships in the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area, lamp-posts and cables in various neighbourhoods were also damaged by the earthquake, causing power outages. The staff of the Ministry of Electric and Power launched day and night to restore power in time and most townships have now had power restored.

Similarly, donors, artists and regional/state-based organizations have also visited the temporary shelters of earthquake-affected staff and families in the Nay Pyi Taw Council Area by donating food, water, emergency supplies, clothing, and medicines. In addition, the Government has also provided temporary shelters, mobile water vehicles, and temporary water tanks to the victims.

International relief teams, doctors and nurses are arriving in Myanmar daily to carry out relief work in the earthquake-affected areas as carrying humanitarian aid and medicine. They are conducting in teams with local search and rescue teams to search, rescue and provide health care to victims.

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