Hospitals full of injured people

The injured were immediately sent to local hospitals for free treatments, said a deputy head of the city's health authorities surnamed Huang.

Hundreds of injured people have filled several local hospitals. Gulou Hospital has received 82 injured people as of Wednesday afternoon. Another 131 injured people are being treated in Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University.

All the major hospitals in Nanjing are on round-the-clock standby and have opened emergency passway to treat people injured from the blast. Residents of the city rushed to the hospital to volunteer to donate their blood.

Zhongda Hospital fell short of type A blood and called for help via local radio broadcast. Within an hour, 12 residents donated 3,000 ml of blood.

Officials are visiting the more than 2,300 families of 22 residential blocks near the explosion, comforting relatives of killed people, looking for missing ones and arranging accomodations for those whose homes were damaged, said Zhu Jingsong, head of the publicity department of Xixia District.

(Xinhua News Agency July 29, 2010)