'We need medical aid, a roof over our heads', say Nepalese quake survivors

With thousands of Nepali citizens injured in the devastating earthquake and require medical attention, the country is in dire need of vital needs including medical supplies and shelters from relief efforts.

Government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been urged to provide vital needs in the quake-hit country to be channeled to the millions of people especially in remote areas who were affected by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 25.

"Food supplies are not entirely a major concern but decent shelters and medicines supplies are some of the primary items the locals require.

“Many also yearn to return to their families in Kathmandu from other districts like Chautane and Kartigei since most buildings as well as telecommunication networks were destroyed in the earthquake,” said Astro AWANI reporter, Mariah Ahmad - who is in Nepal with Malaysian humanitarian group, Global Expedition Club -- in a telephone interview, Saturday.

Mariah, along with several Malaysian volunteers including climber, Ravi Kumar and a group of medical personnel has been on a humanitarian mission to provide medical relief and other remote areas around Kathmandu on May 5.

PHOTO: Aftermath Earthquake in Nepal