00:00Sagar Shrestha is the Director of Disaster and Crisis Management at the Nepal Red Cross Society.
00:07The information is a little bit more clear today.
00:10Yesterday we don't have much information.
00:12But today also there is not much information from one of the districts,
00:16which is the bordering district of Tibet, China, which is the Rasuwa.
00:21So even there is not much information because there is no electricity and no telephone communications.
00:26So only the Nepal Army is accessing with a chopper, helicopter.
00:31Even the helicopter is not landing there.
00:34So still the situation in the one district is not much clear.
00:37Even our local volunteers are not in contact.
00:41So regarding the other three districts, especially in the Nohagot and the Thading,
00:45so our local volunteers and headquarters emergency operation teams are deployed.
00:50And so far we have dispatched more than 1,000 families, non-food relief items.
00:57And there's five different camps.
00:59And the camp is managed by local authorities, security forces, and Red Cross in local level,
01:05and including other humanitarian organizations.
01:08So relief supplying we are doing since yesterday to today also.
01:12So there is a huge number of dead body bags required, which is something like havoc to us.
01:19So that dead body bags is normally with the Nepal Red Cross Society in Nepal.
01:23So we are dispatching more than thousands of dead body bags.
01:27And the authorities are saying that we need a lot of dead body bags.
01:31So that's why this card city we have.
01:32So with our federations, our International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cross Society,
01:38yesterday we launched our draft, which is something like 1 million.
01:42So that's why it's already approved.
01:44And we are trying our best effort in the local level with our non-food relief items,
01:51shelter, camp management, drinking waters, food items, and restoring family link.
01:57And there are reports of people stranded on isolated hillsides.
02:01So how are rescuers trying to reach those communities?
02:06Yes, there's a report that many people are climbing to the mountains.
02:10They are slowly rescuing.
02:13I think yesterday, I think even the helicopter is not being able to rescue.
02:17But there are many, many people being rescued today, those who are in the mountains.
02:21Yesterday there was raining, so the climate was, the weather was not very good.
02:26That's why maybe the chopper is not being able to go there.
02:28But today, normally the climate is fine.
02:31So rescue, it's quite comfortable today.
02:34So many, many people who are climbing to the mountains, so they are getting back to the camp there.
02:39So camp management is normally now done by the Nepal Red Cross Society and normally local level
02:44and the Nepal Army with other security forces.
02:47So today, it's comfortable after the search and rescue, especially rescuing in the mountains, compared to the yesterday.
02:53Well, Saga, authorities are warning that there could be further landslides and flooding.
02:58How serious is the danger to survivors and rescue workers in the next, let's say, 24 to 48 hours?
03:05So normally Nepal is a monsoon active time, so the monsoon is normally late in Nepal.
03:12But there is a precipitation forecast for this week, so most probably there could be another kind of the monsoon
03:20and the precipitation and some kind of disaster event may happen in the same areas, including across the country.
