Satellite
links help rescue workers communicate after devastating
earthquake on Pakistan-India border
Télécom Sans Frontières (TSF)
has rushed more teams and equipment to help relief efforts
in earthquake-hit Pakistan, where thousands are dead
and millions of people remain homeless.
TSF is using a range of Inmarsat equipment to help
rescue workers, including R-BGAN, GAN and mini-M.
One team is at Muzaffarabad in Kashmir - the worst-hit
region in northern Pakistan near the border with India
- where it has established internet links at the heart
of the United Nations' rescue centre.
A second team has installed a telecommunications centre
for the rescue workers based at nearby Mansehra.
Inmarsat-sponsored TSF responded immediately to the
disaster on October 8, despatching a team from its base
at Colombo in Sri Lanka within hours of the quake, which
registered 7.6 on the Richter scale.
Entire villages in northern Pakistan have been razed
to the ground and roads blocked, creating conditions
that severely hamper relief efforts.
Four days after the quake, an estimated 2 million people
were still without shelter in the affected areas, but
as telephone links had been cut it was difficult for
rescue teams to establish exact numbers.
When responding to disasters, TSF's objective is swiftly
to create emergency mobile satellite telecoms centres
- using Inmarsat equipment - for rescue teams, local
authorities and other emergency relief efforts.
The charity supplies telephone and fax lines, as well
as technical assistance for computers and telecommunications,
and helps to co-ordinate the exchange of information
between rescuers. |
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