![]() NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. INSKEEP: That's NPR's Lauren Frayer in Marrakech. INSKEEP: Well, we'll continue listening for your reporting then. I am going to try to get beyond there today to some of those villages where we hear they're still without food, without water, without electricity, without any help at all. At one point, I stopped and asked for directions, and a man on the side of the road told me, you know, beyond here, there's just kind of nothing left. That road is in worse shape, choked with military convoys, ambulances, funeral processions. ![]() I drove part of the way up into the mountains yesterday. I'm looking at a line around the block across the street from here at a blood bank where people are lining up to donate. Moroccans, though, those who can, have really mobilized. There will obviously be questions about whether the government here requested that aid quick enough and why only four countries were invited. Search and rescue teams are coming from the U.K., Spain, Qatar, the UAE. Can international aid arrive?įRAYER: It is arriving. But you also refer to cracked roads and roads closed. You were able to reach there, I know, able to get a flight into an airport that is still functioning. Lauren I'm trying to think about the transit situation. INSKEEP: Oh, because they were present, of course, on Friday. And so you've got this eerie juxtaposition of, like, foreigners in Hawaiian shirts and sunglasses roaming around, taking selfies in the rubble. But there are also lots of tourists, Steve. A minaret from a centuries-old mosque there fell down - lots of broken glass. There's been a lot of focus on the walled old city of Marrakech. Roads are closed as the military tries to repair them quickly. And so every inch of green space, like highway medians, are covered with sleeping bags. And so you see people just running out of buildings all of the time, and many are too scared to reenter at all. Lots of people, even if their homes survived Friday's initial quake, the aftershocks keep hitting. What is the situation elsewhere in this large city?įRAYER: You know, the biggest thing you notice is people sleeping outdoors. How could anything, really? Lauren, thanks for the imagery there of the hospital where you're standing. ![]() It could be the head, which is, like, very, very dangerous territory.įRAYER: She says nothing in med school prepared her for this. He's bandaged, and his neck is in a brace. We have a lot of that too.įRAYER: This looks like a head injury here. OUMAIMA TOUNSI: It's mainly broken bones, broken limbs, hemorrhaging, like, internal hemorrhaging in the chest. Her name is Oumaima Tounsi (ph), and I asked her about the injuries she's seeing. In some cases, they got treatment at smaller facilities in the mountains but now are being shifted to this larger hospital. These are victims who have been pulled out of the rubble from the quake sort of 48 hours on. Wailing relatives pile out of the ambulances with them. And about every minute or so, an ambulance comes up, disgorges victims, people with bandages, splints on their legs, some unconscious. Hey there, Lauren.įRAYER: Well, I'm in the doorway of a public hospital emergency room. INSKEEP: NPR's Lauren Frayer is in Marrakech, a city near the quake's epicenter. And thousands more are injured as recovery efforts continue. Nearly 2,500 people are known to have died so far. Wrecked roads and aftershocks make it hard to get there. And that name gives you a clue into the difficulty of getting aid in to the people who need it most. The earthquake struck Friday night in the High Atlas Mountains. We have an eyewitness account today of devastation from an earthquake in Morocco.
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