Chaklala Airbase(Pakistan): A relief plane of the UAE's Red Crescent Society (RCS) arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday carrying 43 tonnes of relief supplies for the victims of the earthquake that shook Pakistan on October 8.
The earthquake killed more than 73,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
The 16th relief plane that RCS has sent so far brought medicines, blankets, food items, domestic utensils and surgical appliances donated by people of the UAE.
According to Pakistan's Red Crescent Society officials, the UAE has been one of the major donors of essential goods to the relief operations.
The UAE also pledged $100 million to the President's Relief Fund during a Donors' Conference held in Islamabad on Saturday.
The UAE has set up a 200-bed military field hospital in Balakot, Pakistan.
According to the doctors, the hospital, operating since October 11, has been treating an average of six hundred injured daily.
Forty-three injured people have so far been flown to the UAE for treatment at better-equipped hospitals there.
The 17th relief plane, a UAE military aircraft, arrived bringing back six of these injured after completion of their treatment in Abu Dhabi.
"They looked after us very well there. We had no trouble, no problems, nothing to worry about," said Farah Diba, wife of Mohammad Farid from Muzaffarabad who had been operated upon for a fractured back.
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