The flow of patients from Bhuj and other places is on but at a slightly reduced rate.

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The Bhuj earthquake, only 100km from the border of Pakistan, was of similar magnitude but killed 18, 500.

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Relief agencies say that the hardest-hit towns, such as Bhuj, are getting help while outlying villages are being neglected.

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Four days after the event, small villages just ten kilometres (six miles) from Bhuj had not been reached, says an official of Oxfam, a British-based charity.

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Supplies are piling up at the airport in Bhuj, the district capital, where there are too few lorries to transport them and too little information to direct them to where they are most needed.

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