• A Red Crescent volunteer provides first aid to a policeman who got hurt while managing a crowd of mourners demanding bodies of their co-workers and relatives. Since the onset of the disaster, the Red Crescent makeshift camp in Savar provided first aid not only to the injured survivors, but also to other first responders.
    • A Red Crescent volunteer provides first aid to a policeman who got hurt while managing a crowd of mourners demanding bodies of their co-workers and relatives. Since the onset of the disaster, the Red Crescent makeshift camp in Savar provided first aid not only to the injured survivors, but also to other first responders.
      © ICRC / O. Shadman
  • A Red Crescent first aid team attends a soldier who had cut his hand while opening an oxygen cylinder. The volunteers later gave the patient CPR as he went into shock while being transported to the Combined Military Hospital.
    • A Red Crescent first aid team attends a soldier who had cut his hand while opening an oxygen cylinder. The volunteers later gave the patient CPR as he went into shock while being transported to the Combined Military Hospital.
      © ICRC / O. Shadman
  • Shefali (on the right) and seven other co-workers used a screwdriver to dig their way out of the eight-storey collapsed building. After having spent four days in darkness and stench, Shefali was traumatized and in grief over the loss of her aunt, with whom she lived and worked.
  • Dignified and proper management of the dead in disasters is fundamental in helping families know the fate of their relatives and mourn their dead. A team of Red Crescent volunteers supported the rescuers in carrying the deceased. For identification purposes, physical features and personal belongings were noted down before the bodies were placed inside body bags supplied by the ICRC. 293 bodies still remain unidentified, of which 187 have been tested for DNA.

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