article_snippet.sent: The mission, a joint effort between Indian air crew and a Nepalese army medical team, is only the third operation of Indian kind to reach this remote village since Saturday's massive 7.8-magnitude quake, which left more than 5,000 people dead.
article_snippet.sent: The aircraft is stuffed to capacity with tents, medicines and packages of tinned tuna, instant noodles and rice, all bundled haphazardly aboard the Mi-17 by soldiers at the air base in Kathmandu barely 15 minutes earlier.
article_snippet.sent: Local official Upendra Tamang is there to greet an Indian Air Force helicopter as an Indian Air Force helicopter touches down on a field in front of the village medical clinic, and waiting soldiers swing into action to unload the delivery.
article_snippet.sent: Aid agencies need to do something very quickly," Local official Upendra Tamang says.
article_snippet.sent: Seven of injured people from the region, five women and two men, are suddenly driven onto the airfield in a truck and on the back of a pickup.
article_snippet.sent: Another cries in pain as An elderly woman is loaded on to a stretcher from the back of a pickup, then awkwardly hoisted on to the helicopter.
article_snippet.sent: As the helicopter takes off for the capital, flying over a landscape dotted with collapsed buildings and bright orange tents, Nepalese army doctor Naveen Tiwari offers perhaps the only positive for those on board.
article_snippet.sent: When the helicopter touches down at Kathmandu airbase, The patients' are swiftly unloaded and unceremoniously laid out on the tarmac in the emergency triage area in front of an aircraft hangar, and paramedics scramble to administer IV drips to those in need .
article_snippet.sent: How you can help victims of the Nepal earthquakeNepal earthquake's victims overwhelm hospitals .
highlights_snippet.sent: Indian Air Force and Nepalese Army medical team launch rescue mission to bring injured people to hospitals in Kathmandu .
  