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Wenzhou hospitals teem with blood donors for train wreck victims
By Dong Zhen |
July 25, 2011, Monday
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When the bullet trains collided, Wenzhou residents quickly rallied round to support the rescue effort and help the victims.
Photographs posted on the Internet showed long queues of people at hospitals in the city with their sleeves rolled up ready to donate blood at around midnight on Saturday.
City officials had issued a call online for emergency blood donations at about 10pm and the residents responded quickly.
Donors, numbering in their thousands, rushed to hospitals to donate blood. Some local restaurants also offered free meals to the blood donors.
At the crash site, scorching heat caused some rescue workers to collapse yesterday morning. Residents living nearby were seen offering tea, water and food to support the rescue effort.
On Weibo.com, more than 2 million people had joined a group closely following the progress of the rescue operations by yesterday afternoon. Millions of bloggers happened to witness the very beginning of the nightmare through a message uploaded by Weibo user "Yang Quan Quan Yang" just minutes after the crash and derailment. "Help! Bullet Train D301 derailed. Children are all crying around. Help us. Quick," the blogger wrote. It's believed that was the first message that got out about the disaster.
"The first four carriages had fallen off. It's horrible. We are lucky to have survived. But half an hour has passed. It's all suffocating inside the carriage. The window could not be opened," another blogger, surnamed Yuan, wrote. Tens of millions of people forwarded the rescue calls online and left comforting messages for the trapped victims, urging them to hold on and that help was on the way. At 10:45pm, Yang Quan Quan Yang, author of the first message, reported: "Police saved us. We have climbed down the viaduct now."
China's online community started a campaign to pass on information to match up victims and their families. Details of victims being treated at hospitals or pleas from families seeking relatives still unaccounted for were posted online and forwarded tens of thousands of times. A team of hospital doctors from Shanghai experienced in treating trauma injuries left for Wenzhou yesterday to support rescue operations there.
Photographs posted on the Internet showed long queues of people at hospitals in the city with their sleeves rolled up ready to donate blood at around midnight on Saturday.
City officials had issued a call online for emergency blood donations at about 10pm and the residents responded quickly.
Donors, numbering in their thousands, rushed to hospitals to donate blood. Some local restaurants also offered free meals to the blood donors.
At the crash site, scorching heat caused some rescue workers to collapse yesterday morning. Residents living nearby were seen offering tea, water and food to support the rescue effort.
On Weibo.com, more than 2 million people had joined a group closely following the progress of the rescue operations by yesterday afternoon. Millions of bloggers happened to witness the very beginning of the nightmare through a message uploaded by Weibo user "Yang Quan Quan Yang" just minutes after the crash and derailment. "Help! Bullet Train D301 derailed. Children are all crying around. Help us. Quick," the blogger wrote. It's believed that was the first message that got out about the disaster.
"The first four carriages had fallen off. It's horrible. We are lucky to have survived. But half an hour has passed. It's all suffocating inside the carriage. The window could not be opened," another blogger, surnamed Yuan, wrote. Tens of millions of people forwarded the rescue calls online and left comforting messages for the trapped victims, urging them to hold on and that help was on the way. At 10:45pm, Yang Quan Quan Yang, author of the first message, reported: "Police saved us. We have climbed down the viaduct now."
China's online community started a campaign to pass on information to match up victims and their families. Details of victims being treated at hospitals or pleas from families seeking relatives still unaccounted for were posted online and forwarded tens of thousands of times. A team of hospital doctors from Shanghai experienced in treating trauma injuries left for Wenzhou yesterday to support rescue operations there.
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