Humanitarian operation in Myanmar hindered by damaged roads and infrastructure, says UN agency

By Olivia Le Poidevin

GENEVA (Reuters) -Humanitarian operations successful Myanmar person been hindered by damaged roads and infrastructure, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said connected Saturday.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake connected Friday severely damaged captious infrastructure including large bridges and roads, making it hard for humanitarian operations to entree areas successful need, OCHA said.

"Damage to the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay expressway led to work disruptions, with cracks and aboveground distortions forcing road buses to halt operations", the UN bureau said successful a statement.

Hospitals successful cardinal and northwestern Myanmar are struggling to header with the influx of radical injured successful the earthquake, the bureau stated. Seventeen cargo trucks of structure and aesculapian supplies are owed to get connected March 30, to code existent shortages of medicines including humor bags and anaesthetics.

Myanmar's subject rulers fto successful hundreds of overseas rescue unit connected Saturday aft the earthquake killed much than 1,600 people, the deadliest earthy catastrophe to deed the impoverished, war-torn state successful years.

Friday's quake, among the biggest to jolt the Southeast Asian federation successful the past century, crippled airports, bridges and highways amid a civilian warfare that has wrecked the system and displaced millions.

(Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)