There's a field hospital on a lawn in Jalal Abad, Pakistan. The hospital was a table and a chair. 'That was all, because there is no furniture left here,' said one of the survivors of the earthquake which left not a house standing in his valley about 150 kilometres from Islamabad. Towards the end of the week the army brought two tents. 'Now we have a proper functioning hospital.' Two tents, a table and a chair.
The valley is a graveyard, says the man, who is the brother of a consultant paediatrician in Islamabad, Dr Sajid Saraf. The doctor left the city instantly, bringing what medicines he could muster to treat people suffering from broken bones, head injuries, fever and trauma.
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