ABBOTTABAD, Oct 10: Death toll from the devastating earthquake in Abbottabad district has reached 380. The figure is likely to mount as the Bakot union council in the district was still inaccessible due to road closures.

Hectic efforts are under way to clear the roads and access to the Bakot area where around 200 deaths were reported.

A large number of injured people have arrived here from different parts of Hazara, including Mansehra, Balakot, Batagram, Kohistan and Azad Kashmir after roads in these quake hit areas were opened for light traffic.

The Ayub Medical Complex, which has a capacity of 1,600, was crowded. The hospital administration has set up 12 wards and one operation theatre in the hospital lawns.

Patients and injured people were reluctant to go indoors even after engineers and building experts declared the hospital building out of danger.

Cracks have appeared in the hospital building after the massive earthquake.

An open operation theatre, established in the car park area, was functioning round the clock and in three days time, over 3,000 patients were treated there. Around 750 were admitted and the condition of at least 48 is stated to be critical.

More inflow was expected after the clearance of roads and start of rescue work in the affected areas as Monday was the first day of relief work day in the area.

The complex administration, from the chief executive to paramedic staff, were working round the clock and there was no let-up from the hospital staff who had worked for more than 20 hours daily without break.

Two mobile operation theatres, with eight surgeons and 20 paramedics, were sent by POF Wah Chairman Maj-Gen Javed and Rs2 million medicines were also handed over to CMH Abbottabad.

Over 200 seriously injured people, air-lifted from Azad Kashmir and from upper parts of Abbottabad, have been admitted in the hospital. Entire entourage of the POF Wah was to be sent to Balakot and other affected areas.

Over 20 organizations from the country have established relief camps, which include the Al-Khidmat Foundation, Dewan Salman group, Red Crescent Pakistan, Faizan-e-Madina, Edhi Foundation, Al-Rasheed Trust, Abbotian Medical Association, Young Federation Mirpur-Abbottabad, Pakistan Baitul Mal and others.

Hundreds of individuals and families were seen distributing relief goods and food items among the quake victims. A special blood bank was also set up to collect blood for the injured.

Twelve teams of doctors and paramedics were sent to different parts of Hazara, especially to Balakot, by the Ayub Medical Complex administration to provide first aid to the people who suffered injuries and were living in the open due to the lack of shelter and fear of aftershocks.

Announcements were made from mosques, asking volunteers to go to the worst-destroyed areas for digging graves and pulling out the people trapped in the wreckage of houses.

Following these announcements, at least 2,000 volunteers from Abbottabad and the surrounding areas set out for Balakot to help rescue people. Almost every mosque collected three truckloads of relief goods. Around 24 trucks loaded with relief items were sent to the affected areas.

A long line of vehicles carrying relief goods coming from the lower parts of the country was seen on the main road on way to Abbottabad, Mansehra and Azad Kashmir.

Injured from the affected areas were complaining about the poor response by the government agencies and lack of coordination among different departments.

No proper emergency centre or crisis management unit is established. The DCO and other authorities concerned were busy in protocol duties taking care of VVIPs.

According to reports reaching here, relief work was in full swing in Balakot and other parts of Hazara where heavy earth-moving machinery has been taken by FWO and Army Engineers. It was said that MPA Syed Mazhar Ali Shah was rescued from debris of his house in critical condition while 22 member of his family could not be rescued.

Afaq Umer, a student of Kalees village school, could be saved while 60 bodies were found from the school building.

According to eye witnesses, situation of the Kahn, Naran and other upper area of Mansehra could not be reported due to disruptions of communication link, but it has been hoped that after the arrival of manpower relief work will get momentum.