UP sets up four relief camps on India-Nepal border

The Uttar Pradesh government has set up four relief camps along the India-Nepal border to attend to earthquake victims in the Himalayan country, an official here said on Monday.

The camps have been set up in four border districts of Bahraich, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj and Gorakhpur, an official spokesman told IANS.

Other than food stocks and water, these camps would also have doctors on duty and stock medicinal supplies to attend to those injured in the devastating earthquake that killed thousands in Nepal.

A contingent of state-owned transport buses has also been pressed into action to ferry Indians back home.

Uttar Pradesh shares a long, porous boundary with Nepal and ten of its districts lie adjacent to it.

It has already sent 21 trucks to the quake-hit country. The relief material included food, biscuits, mineral water and medicines.

A team of doctors and nurses has been sent from the state capital's prestigious King George's Medical University.