Project Description

The PRASAD Project and PRASAD Chikitsa worked together to provide disaster relief after the massive Bhuj earthquake that occurred on Jan. 26, 2001, in the Indian state of Gujarat, on the Pakistan border. In addition to killing more than 20,000 people and injuring more than 150,000 others, the quake left hundreds of thousands homeless and destroyed or damaged more than a million buildings. A large portion of the local crops was ruined as well.

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